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Meanwhile, low and middle income countries haven t vaccinated their most vulnerable people.
To get back to normal, the US need to both immunize teens and send doses abroad, experts told Insider.
In January, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general at the World Health Organization (WHO), warned that the world was on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure by not giving enough vaccines to poorer countries. It is not right that younger, healthier adults in rich countries are vaccinated before health workers and older people in poorer countries, he said.
Meanwhile, vaccines remain scarce in low- and middle-income countries and many of the most vulnerable people in those nations haven t yet received a shot, a WHO spokesperson told Insider. In India, where millions are dying and the virus has mutated, less than 10% of people have had at least one vaccine dose, according to Oxford University s Our World in Da
People traveling to Germany from the U.S. do not need to quarantine if they are fully vaccinated against coronavirus, can show they have recovered from COVID-19 or produce a negative test result, the health ministry in Berlin said Thursday.
It warned that the surge is pushing hospitals and health systems to the brink of collapse.
Seven out of 10 countries globally that are doubling their infection numbers the fastest are in Asia and the Pacific, it said. Laos took just 12 days to see its cases double, and the number of confirmed infections in India has doubled in under two months to more than 23 million, the Red Cross said in a statement.
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Red Cross warns that coronavirus cases are exploding in Asia
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It warned that the surge is pushing hospitals and health systems to the brink of collapse.
Seven out of 10 countries globally that are doubling their infection numbers the fastest are in Asia and the Pacific, it said.
Laos took just 12 days to see its cases double, and the number of confirmed infections in India has doubled in under two months to more than 23 million, the Red Cross said in a statement.
It said Oxford University’s Our World in Data reported more than 5.9 million new Covid-19 infections in Asia and the Pacific during the two weeks.
Official figures for much of the region are widely believed to be undercounts.