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WHO to compensate for serious jab side effects

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 28, 2020. [Reuters]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners have agreed to launch a programme for claims of serious side effects among people in 92 poorer countries due to Covid-19 vaccination, the WHO said Monday in a statement.

“This is the first and only global vaccine injury compensation mechanism operating on an international scale,” the WHO statement said.

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