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May 13, 2021

U.N. Calls for Doubling Global Vaccine Production as Some Countries Have Yet to Receive Single Dose
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The World Health Organization says nearly a dozen countries - many of
them in Africa - have yet to receive a single vaccine dose. U.N.
Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday the world needs to
double its vaccine production capacity while at the same time making
vaccine distribution more equitable.

Secretary-General António Guterres: "It is totally unacceptable to live
in a world in which developed countries can vaccinate most of its
population while many developing countries have not had access to one
single dose. … With the virus spreading like wildfire in different parts
of the developing world, the risk of mutations, the risk of new
variants, is such that we risk to have a situation in which the vaccines
that exist today will no longer be effective. So it's in the interest of
everybody that everybody is vaccinated everywhere."



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