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World won’t achieve herd immunity for COVID-19 in 2021, WHO warns – SBS News
The WHO has warned it will not be possible to produce and administer enough coronavirus vaccine doses this year to achieve herd immunity.
Despite vaccines against COVID-19 being rolled out in a number of countries, the World Health Organization warned on Monday that herd immunity would not be achieved this year.
Countries across the globe are looking forward to vaccines finally allowing a return to normality in the months ahead.
But the WHO’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan warned that it will take time to produce and administer enough doses to halt the spread of the virus.
“We are not going to achieve any levels of population…
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