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 If vaccination rates are not raised globally, stronger variants of
the coronavirus could develop and vaccines intended as booster shots
should be donated to countries where people have not received their
first or second doses, he said during avisit to Budapest.
"In addition, there is a debate about whether booster shots are
effective at all," Ghebreyesus told a news conference with Hungarian
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
Those whose immune system is compromised should get a booster shot,
though they represent only small percentage of the population, he
added.
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 The WHO said last week current
data does not indicate that COVID-19 booster
shots are needed and that the most vulnerable
people worldwide should be fully vaccinated
before high-income countries deploy a top-up.
The Unites States announced last week it plans
to make COVID-19 vaccine booster shots widely
available starting on Sept. 20 as infections
rise from the coronavirus Delta variant.
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Hungary has already started widely distributing
booster shots, with anyone eligible four months
after they received their second dose of a
coronavirus vaccine.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Anita Komuves;
Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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