WHO urges countries to donate 10 million COVID-19 doses to poorest
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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the COVAX vaccine facility, run with the GAVI vaccine alliance, needed 10 million doses immediately for health care workers and older people as a stop-gap measure. So far COVAX has delivered 32 million vaccine doses to 61 countries, but 36 countries still await vaccines to start inoculations, he said.
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