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BBC: WHO warns pandemic will drag on into 2022

By BBC.

Published Oct. 21, 2021. Updated Oct. 21 at 2:38 am

Dr. Debjeet Sarkar places 63 flags into the ground to represent the patients he cared for who died from the coronavirus as part of the 'In America: Remember,' a public art installation commemorating all the Americans who have died due to COVID-19 near the Washington Monument on Sept. 17, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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The Covid pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Dr Bruce Aylward, senior leader at the WHO, said it meant the Covid crisis could “easily drag on deep into 2022”.