Do western economies hold the COVAX sharing scheme’s key to success?

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4 years ago

May 18, 2021

Western economies can feel the end of the pandemic is in sight… but things look grim for many other parts of the world.

UNICEF and World Health Organisation chiefs are calling on G7 countries to donate more COVID-19 vaccines to the global COVAX supply

The show is back on for London theatres… reopened to live audiences.

People can sit indoors in pubs and even hug each other again.

It’s the biggest lift of coronavirus restrictions since the start of the UK’s successful vaccination campaign.

Although things seem well for most developed countries like in the UK, the grass isn’t greener on the other side.

The World Health Organisation director-general says the world has reached a situation of “vaccine apartheid”,

The chief is urging Vaccine makers to speed up COVAX jabs…sooner than planned.

This follows a severe shortfall, following a curb on exports from India.

So far…The US makes up 20 per cent of the nearly 1.4 billion jabs given worldwide.

Where as Africa’s three most populous countries – Nigeria, Ethiopia and Egypt, home to more than 400 million people – each account for just 0.1 per cent.

Developing countries are seeking ways to bridge that gap.

President Joe Biden said the US will send at least 20 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses overseas by the end of June.

Western countries have been slow to share their doses, even among themselves.

But are world leaders now using their country’s vaccine supply as a diplomatic tool now the pandemic situation at home… is on the way up.

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