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Coronavirus: the vulnerable regions that could trigger ‘rebound’ in the West

DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images A child refugee in Syria, where many hospitals have been damaged during the civil war
Photo credit: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

Poorer countries recovering from the coronavirus outbreak risk sparking a second global wave of infections if the West does not help the developing world, experts have warned.

The UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, said the virus could mutate into a form that no vaccine could contain if the disease was left to spread in developing countries.

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