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Global vaccine justice — II

Moreover, vaccine inequality, whereby rich countries are significantly outpacing poorer countries in terms of vaccine administration, have also very damaging consequence in terms of economic inequality between countries. For instance,…

Global vaccine justice — I

‘The global Covid-19 vaccine roll-out is creating a “vaccine apartheid”. As of February 24, approximately 216 million people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 globally. Only 8.4 percent of these are…

How BioNTech-Pfizer won the vaccine race

It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “we need to fire the starting gun on this”. Sahin…

Vaccine apartheid

Could the rich world’s obscene selfishness on vaccine equality ultimately help bring about a fairer economy? If we fight for it. When diplomats start speaking like campaigners, you know geopolitics…

Vaccine uptake

The vaccination roll-out in Pakistan has received an underwhelming response from front-line healthcare workers. Amongst those who have refused, some have done so because they wanted to wait for the…

Vaccine nationalism

WHEN it comes to vaccinating its population, the United States is in a secure position. With 14 per cent of the country fully vaccinated and 26pc having received a first…