Covax: what’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism?

Covid jabs-sharing scheme set to miss 2021 target for sending urgently needed doses to poorer countries

Shipment of Covid vaccines donated through Covax arrives at Bolivian Air Force base in El Alto
Shipment of Covid vaccines donated through Covax arrives at Bolivian Air Force base in El Alto
(Image credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images)

Manchester University lecturer Rory Horner on how the “catastrophic moral failure” of rich countries hoarding doses is hobbling efforts to end vaccine inequality

The latest supply forecast for Covax - the programme for sharing Covid-19 vaccines around the world - suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely. Covax estimates it will have distributed 1.425bn vaccine doses by the end of 2021, significantly less than the 2bn doses it was aiming for earlier this year.

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