Former prime minister Gordon Brown says the failure to distribute vaccines to poorer countries is a “stain on our global soul”.He said people were realising coronavirus would “come back to haunt” every country, without a push to get the whole world vaccinated next year.So far, eight billion Covid vaccines have been administered worldwide.But of those, the vast majority have been given in high and middle-income countries.The World Health Organization (WHO) says 98 countries have not yet met the target of vaccinating 40% of their populations.About three-quarters of the population have received a vaccine in the UK, US and France, and 80% in Japan. In Nigeria only one in 20 people has been jabbed, and in Ethiopia the figure is just 8%.Only one in four African healthcare workers has been vaccinated.Some have linked low vaccination rates to the emergence of new coronavirus variants such as Omicron, first identified in South Africa and now spreading rapidly across […]
Global Covid vaccine rollout a stain on our soul – Brown
