Turn the page on Covid-19? Not so fast, say experts

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The highly contagious Delta variant is now dominant across the world.

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So is the pandemic in its final phase?
"I think it is too early to say just yet for everyone, though in the highly vaccinated parts of the world, this will be more true," virologist Julien Tang told AFP by email.
For now, he said, statements about how the pandemic is progressing "have to be very country- or region-specific".
"There are now clear inequalities in terms of vaccination coverage across the world," Tang said.

Less than two percent of the world's poorest populations have received even a first dose of vaccine, noted Flahault, director of the University of Geneva's Institute of Global Health.
"In certain places -- eastern and central Europe, Africa, Asia, Israel, Canada, El Salvador, Belize -- cases are increasing exponentially, so we can't say the pandemic is behind us," he said.

Turn the page on Covid-19? Not so fast, say experts

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