Covid mutant variants in rampant outbreaks like India & Brazil mean ‘no one is safe’ as pandemic could last until 2024
and beat vaccines if the virus is allowed to let rip before enough people have had their jabs.
Antibodies - proteins produced by the immune system to fight the virus - may be weaker against new strains. She added: "A rise in infections anywhere is a risk everywhere which is why it is self-defeating for governments to only focus on vaccination at home with no replicable plan at the global level to get this virus under control and stop the threat of more variants.
It warns current barriers may lead to the the prolonging of the pandemic as the vaccines cannot to get to places they need - with many nations on pace to not be fully jabbed until 2024. "We need a people’s vaccine, not only to protect people in the world’s poorest countries, but to ensure that people all over the world who’ve already been vaccinated aren’t put at risk again."
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