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  • South Africa's president has urged wealthy countries to stop holding vaccines that they've ordered but do not yet need.

  • Speaking at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum, Civil Rama Poser said Now was the time for the world to be acting together, rich countries in the world, holding onto these vaccines and we are saying released the excess vaccines that you have you have ordered and hold it.

  • There is just no need for a country which perhaps has about 40 million people, goes and acquired 120 million doses, or even 160 million and yet the world needs access to those vaccines.

  • The World Health Organization has warned that vaccine nationalism will cause an economic and moral catastrophe.

  • On Monday, John WH.

  • Dentyne, secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce, said unequal distribution of vaccines could cause more than $9 trillion of damage to the global economy.

  • Japan can frankly doom or Canada could doom or Australia could doom or the constituent members of the European Union must do Morris well.

  • Last month, Oxfam warned that wealthy nations representing just 14% of the global population had brought up more than half of the world's most promising vaccines.

  • Now this is being done to the exclusion off countries off other countries in the world that most need this.

  • South Africa is by far the continent's hardest hit country in the covert 19 pandemic, with more than 1.4 million cases and over 40,000 deaths as off Tuesday.

  • And RAM opposes, government is being urged by health experts to come up with a detailed plan on how it proposes to inoculate 40 million people this year.

  • What.

South Africa's president has urged wealthy countries to stop holding vaccines that they've ordered but do not yet need.

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