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Covid pandemic may continue in 2022: WHO

The world has not yet been able to get out of the coronavirus outbreak that spread in December 2019. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this situation will continue until 2022. The BBC reported this information in a report.

 According to the report, the WHO has blamed poor countries for failing to get the required number of vaccines.

Dr Bruce Aylward, senior leader at the WHO, said it meant the Covid crisis could “easily drag on deep into 2022”.

Less than 5% of Africa’s population have been vaccinated, compared to 40% on most other continents.

The UK has delivered more than 10 million vaccines to countries in need.It has pledged a total of 100 million

Dr Aylward appealed to wealthy countries to give up their places in the queue for vaccines in order that pharmaceutical companies can prioritise the lowest-income countries instead.

He said wealthy countries needed to “stocktake” where they were with their donation commitments made at summits such as the G7 meeting in St Ives this summer.

“I can tell you we’re not on track” he said. “We really need to speed it up or you know what? This pandemic is going to go on for a year longer than it needs to.”

In this context, experts are saying that, slow vaccine deliveries in poor countries mean that the epidemic will be prolonged.

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