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Covid: Global healthcare workers missing out on jabs
By Tulip Mazumdar
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Millions of healthcare workers around the world remain unvaccinated, according to a body representing many of them
Health and care workers are being left behind in efforts to vaccinate the world against Covid-19, nursing leaders say.
There were promises they would be among the first to be jabbed.
But the International Council of Nurses (ICN), which represents 27 million professionals, says tens of millions have not even had one dose.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates around 200 have died each day since the pandemic began.
Howard Catton, chief executive of the ICN, says: If this was an airline going down every day with 200 people on board, there d be immediate investigations.