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indonesia's presidentjoko widodo has spoken exclusively to the bbc and echoed calls for a fairer distributiont for indonesia, but for all developing countries and especially for poor countries. global coronavirus cases are rising for the first time in two months, and there are now more than 10,000 deaths a day being recorded worldwide. advocates say many of them could be avoided with a fairer vaccine distribution model. courtney bembridge, bbc news. the former prime minister, gordon brown, has been vocal about the need for global vaccine equity. he's been speaking to the bbc. countries have over—ordered and they're overstocked and they're not getting the vaccines out quickly enough, so a lot of vaccines could be wasted past their expiry date, and we know that nobody is safe anywhere until everybody is vaccinated everywhere. i think that today you will pass this terrible figure — five million deaths already from covid — and what the world health organization is saying, that there will be another five million more deaths unless we act. we've had 2115 million cases of covid. there could be 200 m