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Also doing the UK media round today is Steven Riley, a professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London. He has been talking about the potential impact of the variant first detected in India.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The timing of the variant is bad in some ways because it is happening as we are trying to open up and taking a significant step in relaxation.
Audette Exel writes for us an appeal for global vaccine equity this morning:
The World Health Organization tells us that only 0.3% of Covid-19 vaccine supply is going to low-income countries. They are urging countries to consider donating vaccine to poorer nations before vaccinating children, through the Covax global vaccine sharing system. What an act of grace that would be.
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Read the original article at The Guardian