WHO chief says the pandemic could be defeated this year if countries work ...

The World Health Organisation has told wealthy countries they 'cannot boost their way out of the pandemic' and accused them of worsening vaccine inequality.

Meanwhile, Nigeria said it had incinerated more than a million doses of Covid vaccine that had been donated by developed countries several months ago and had since passed their expiry dates.

Africa's most populous country has so far fully vaccinated four million people — less than three percent of the adult population and well short of the government's target of 112 million people by the end of next year.

Speaking last week, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the rush in richer nations to roll out additional Covid vaccine doses was deepening the inequity in access to jabs

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