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The world's most vulnerable people need vaccine ahead of healthy people in rich countries - WHO director

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Sign up for the latest from M.E.N. political editor Jennifer WilliamsThe world's most vulnerable people should be vaccinated ahead of healthy people in rich countries, the director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged.The world is "on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure”, according to director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has called for fairer distribution of the vaccine.He revealed that in one low-income country just 25 people in total have been vaccinated, while more than 4 million doses have been administered in the UK and Israel has vaccinated at least 20 per cent of its entire population.“It’s right that all governments want to prioritise vaccinating their own health workers and older people first," Dr.

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