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The W.H.O. called for a moratorium on Covid booster shots until the end of September to help each country vaccinate at least 10% of its population.

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 11:12 AM EST

"I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, in a briefing. "But we cannot — and we should not — accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it, while the world's most vulnerable people remain unprotected."

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