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‘Race against time’: New dire coronavirus fears emerge – Yahoo News Australia
Experts have expressed fears the world is not currently equipped to tackle the new deadlier variants of Covid-19 currently emerging around the world.
At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
In an ideal scenario, the virus would then be contained at very low levels without further societal disruption or significant numbers of deaths.
But since then, new variants of concern have emerged and spread worldwide, putting current pandemic control efforts, including vaccination, at risk of being derailed.
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