Copenhagen, Denmark - The World Health Organization's European branch on Thursday said 95 percent of vaccine doses so far administered worldwide were limited to 10 countries and called for a more equitable distribution.
"Collectively, we simply cannot afford to leave any country, any community behind," WHO's regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge, said at an online press conference. According to website Our World in Data, over 32 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered so far. But despite the start of vaccination campaigns the speed of transmission observed in some countries due to new more contagious variants, especially the so-called English and South African ones, was worrying, according to Kluge.In the European region, 25 countries, including Russia, have recorded cases of the strain first discovered in the UK, and dubbed"VOC 202012/01".
WHO self defeating tendencies. I hope they lock themselves up in their countries.
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