SOUTH AFRICA, Dec 4 — From anti-vax riots and scares over safety, to delivery delays and cut-throat competition to get vaccine doses, we look back on a year of never-ending vaccination controversies.From the outset of the global vaccination drive, rich countries have been accused of hogging supplies in what the chief of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called “vaccine nationalism”.
Voices were also raised in vaccine hungry Africa, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accusing rich countries of bulk-buying and hoarding doses. The furious EU executive even took AstraZeneca to court for delivery delays before reaching an accord in September. The United States and India have also been accused of blocking exports of vaccines made in their factories.Controversy over possible side effects of vaccines that were developed in record time and therefore suspicious in the eyes of some, also dogged the inoculation campaign.
Although a handful of countries, like Denmark and Norway, ditched the jab for good, most quickly resumed the injections, often limiting them to older people. But the scare meant the vaccine was snubbed in many countries.
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