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GENEVA, Dec 2 — The world could see the Covid pandemic begin fading next year into an endemic disease like others humanity lives with, unless glaring inequality in vaccine access drags it out and worse variants emerge. Even as countries scramble to address a new worrying virus variant and Europe...

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GENEVA, Dec 2 — The world could see the Covid pandemic begin fading next year into an endemic disease like others humanity lives with, unless glaring inequality in vaccine access drags it out and worse variants emerge.

“The trajectory of this pandemic is in our hands,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s top expert on the Covid crisis, told reporters recently. But a dire lack of vaccines in poorer countries and resistance among some to get jabs where they are available have left nations vulnerable as new, more transmissible variants like Delta have sparked wave after wave of infection.

In the United States, which remains the worst-affected country with close to 800,000 deaths, the constant flow of short obituaries on the FacesOfCovid Twitter account include many who did not have the jab. Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has also said increased vaccination should soon get us to a point where Covid “might occasionally be up and down in the background but it won’t dominate us the way it’s doing right now”.About 65 per cent of people in high-income countries have had at least one vaccine dose, but just over 7 per cent in low-income countries, UN numbers show.

The WHO has warned it poses a “very high” risk globally, although it remains unclear if it is more contagious, dangerous or better at dodging vaccine protections than previous variants.

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