Some 200,000 booster jab appointments are available on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
campaign after it emerged that the UK, EU and US have received more doses of COVID-19 jabs in the last six weeks than African countries have in all of 2021.
Vaccine equity campaigners say that governments like the UK risk"trapping the world in an endless cycle of variants, boosters, restrictions and even lockdowns" if more people are not vaccinated in the global south. G7 countries are on course to have 1.4 billon extra doses by March 2022, even after giving all adults a booster - and yet they are failing to deliver on donation pledges.
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