Covid-19: Vaccines need to be for the 'whole world'
Calls for rich countries to send vaccines to developing world.
The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have said that the G7 countries should give excess vaccines to developing countries as soon as possible. They called it an economic necessity and a moral imperative. President Biden says the US will donate 19 million doses to Covax, the global body distributing vaccines fairly.
David Nabarro is special envoy for Covid-19 to the World Health Organisation. He told Newsday: 鈥淭he pandemic is going to stay for a long time and we have to get on top of it by dealing with it for the whole world and not just for parts of it."
"I would like to change the way we talk about it. It's not donating vaccines to poorer countries. It is using the scarce vaccines available in our world today to help the whole world. It's not about charity, it is about survival. What I want to see happening is that the Covax scheme which was setup to encourage fair vaccine access has the vaccines it needs to do its work.鈥�
Photo: A health worker in Kenya giving a Covid vaccination Credit: Getty Images
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