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The West’s response to omicron is widening the global divide

  • Just when it was beginning to look as though large parts of the world were experiencing an easing of the COVID-19 pandemic after almost two years of its damaging effects, concerns about the recently discovered omicron variant seem to have pushed us back to square one and the world might be look...
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The rich must do more to ensure the poorest get vaccinated

  • One of the most important outcomes of this month’s G7 summit in the UK was that, after more than a year, this group of some of the wealthiest nations in the world finally pledged to donate 1 billion coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to low-income countries. Delayed it may be, but the assistance i...
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