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Health costs during Covid push over 500m people into poverty

Pandemic made things worse with immunisation coverage dropping for the first time in ten years. [Courtesy]

More than half a billion people globally were further pushed into extreme poverty last year, as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank said yesterday.

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