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UN CHIEF GRADES WORLD ON VACCINE ROLLOUT.

United Nations Secretary-general Antonio Guterres reprimanded world leaders on Tuesday for the inequitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, describing it as an “obscenity.” Addressing the annual UN gathering of leaders in New York, Guterres said images from some parts of the world of expired and unused vaccines in the garbage told “the tale of our times” — with the majority of the wealthier world immunized while more than 90 per cent of Africa has not even received one dose. “This is a moral indictment of the state of our world. It is an obscenity. We passed the science test. But we are getting an F in Ethics,” Guterres told the UN General Assembly. Guterres is pushing for a global plan to vaccinate 70 per cent of the world by the first half of next year.

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