UN chief declares 'war' on COVID as India toll tops 300,000 dead

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The UN on Monday declared the world “at war” against COVID-19, as India’s death toll passed 300,000 and Japan opened its first mass vaccination centres.

But just two months ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, the United States on Monday advised its citizens against travelling there.

“Unless we act now, we face a situation in which rich countries vaccinate the majority of their people and open their economies, while the virus continues to cause deep suffering by circling and mutating in the poorest countries.” But experts say the real numbers of deaths and infections in India — fuelled by a new coronavirus variant and “superspreader” events such as religious festivals — are probably far higher than the official figures.

Just two percent of Japan’s 125 million population has been fully vaccinated, compared with around 40 percent in the United States and 15 percent in France.Speaking alongside Guterres at the World Health Organization’s main annual assembly in Geneva, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he wanted 10 percent of every country’s population vaccinated by September.

Many medics have felt “frustrated, helpless and unprotected, with a lack of access to personal protective equipment and vaccines”, he added.

 

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