“We believe clearly that the data does not indicate that boosters are needed,” Swaminathan said at a news conference in Geneva. She expressed more understanding for a recent US decision to administer boosters to people with weaker immune systems.

WHO officials have repeatedly expressed concerns that variants will continue to crop up in areas where the virus goes unchecked and called for vaccine equity and “solidarity” among countries.

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Dr. Michael Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies chief, said, “If we think about this in terms of an analogy, we’re planning to hand out extra life jackets to people who already have life jackets, while we’re leaving other people to drown without a single life jacket.” 

Oz states struggle to contain Delta

Australia’s two most populous states are desperately struggling in their uphill battle against the Delta variant of COVID-19 with both New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria facing increasing rises in cases. New South Wales, where the outbreak began with a single case in its capital city of Sydney in mid-June, remains the epicentre of the rapidly escalating national crisis.

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