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Health authorities have stressed that vaccines against whooping cough, also known as pertussis, are safe and effective, contrary to social media posts that falsely claimed the jabs were a "biohazard". The posts, which surfaced in the Philippines amid a surge in reported cases of the disease, misrepresented a photo of safety boxes -- where used syringes and vials are discarded -- from a vaccination drive in the Philippine city of Caloocan.

It's led by the world health organization. wealthy countries provide the cash and international bodies like unicef do the work. the programme's called covax, and it's part of a plan to protect 5 billion people from covid. when we talk about covax, everybody gets very, very focused around the vaccines, but we also need syringes, safety boxes, personal protective equipment and other items, so that health care workers safely deploy the vaccination programmes on the ground. the idea is that covax buys billions of vaccines at the cheapest price. it then shares the doses out fairly so that poorer co...