‘Herd immunity may take five years’


Three months after a 91-year-old woman in Britain became the first person to receive the Covid-19 injection, more than 236 million doses have been administered worldwide.

The pace of history’s biggest vaccination exercise is picking up exponentially, but at current rates, it could still be almost five years before most of the world get their shots.

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