The World Health Organisation says a coronavirus vaccine should be distributed according to need.
In a series of tweets, the organisation said frontline workers, older people and sick and vulnerable populations were the highest priority, and that “vaccine
nationalism” – which is when a few countries secure more vaccines than their populations need, leaving the large majority of the world without – should be opposed.
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