The suspension of the intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines was a main topic of the cancelled World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. – AFP
And unless governments take urgent action to correct these inequities, we risk the emergence of further variants, some of which may evade vaccines.By the end of November, around 54.2% of the global population had received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. For low-income countries, however, the rate was just 5.8%.
Nearly 100 low-income nations are relying on the program for vaccines. Covax was initially aiming to deliver two billion doses by the end of 2021, enough to vaccinate only the most high-risk groups in developing countries. However, its delivery forecast was wound back in September to only 1.425 billion doses by the end of the year.This predictable failure is largely due to wealthy countries mopping up more than half of the first 7.
Take Australia as one example. It has pledged 60 million doses for developing countries in the Indo-Pacific region, but so far, less than 9.3 million have been delivered. None of these doses are slated for equitable distribution through Covax, however, and none are currently committed for Africa.
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