Health
Vaccine nationalism: Rich nations must also care for the poor – The Interpreter
Short-sighted hoarding ignores the world’s interconnected economy, and threatens to prolong the Covid crisis.
While the Covid-19 pandemic proved to be the perilous equaliser of humankind, regardless of race and nationality, the vaccine for it however revealed the disturbing inequality between the advanced and developing economies.
In a speech last month, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned of the unequal access to vaccines:
More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given…
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