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Weekend: Pandemic will drag on for year longer, WHO says

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Pandemic will drag on for year longer, WHO says

23/10/2021 GMT

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The WHO says the pandemic will last a year longer than needed

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact across the world.  Earlier this week, the World Health Organisation told the BBC that the pandemic will “drag on” for a year longer than it needs to - because of the world’s failure to distribute vaccines to poorer countries.

Plus, the conspiracy theorists QAnon hold a conference as members gear up to enter politics.

And, author Anuk Arudpragasam discusses his Booker Prize short listed novel, A Passage North, about the experiences of a Tamil family as Sri Lanka's quarter-of-a-century long civil war ended in 2009

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues Dr Nitasha Kaul, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, and Oliver McTernan, the Co-Founder and Director of Forward Thinking, which focusses on conflict resolution in the Middle East.

(Pic: Close-up of a volunteer being injected with trial vaccine. Credit:  BioNTech SE)

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