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Wealthy nations will have 1.2 billion vaccine doses they don’t need

Wealthy countries face mounting pressure to divert Covid vaccine supplies to lower-income regions, with a new analysis showing they’ll likely have about 1.2 billion extra doses available by the end of the year.

Those governments have so far delivered a meagre amount of the supplies they’ve pledged to poorer countries as some move forward with plans for booster shots in a race to combat the delta variant.