Next year could see the end of COVID-19 as an emergency worldwide, but global healthcare systems are still at risk of being overwhelmed, the World Health Organisation has told Sky News
"We need to track the known variants. We need to be able to detect new ones."Deserted streets in China were a common sight as the country pursued aggressive lockdown policies
"We're not reaching those targets. And we have to in every single country, but predominantly in lower income countries, we're missing those individuals."A mental health worker with Doctors Without Borders attends to a patient in Caracas, Venezuela "And what we see right now is the people that are requiring hospitalisation, the people who are dying, are the people who have either not received any vaccine at all or they haven't received the full number of doses that they need."
Some countries in the Asia and Pacific regions, for instance, had been much more closed off during the pandemic as they sought to seal themselves off while rolling out vaccination programmes.
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