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No country can use booster shots to overcome pandemic: WHO chief

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World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom warns that the rush in wealthy countries to roll out additional Covid vaccine doses is deepening the inequity in access to jabs that is prolonging the pandemic. SOUNDBITE

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