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'World can end Covid emergency this year'

Updated at 12:04 am

THE head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the planet can end the Covid-19 emergency this year, although the virus last week killed someone every 12 seconds.

A Palestinian student of the UN Relief and Works Agency receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at a school in Gaza's al-Shati refugee camp on January 24, 2022. AFP PHOTO