How much would Covid vaccines for the entire world cost?

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair among more than 100 former leaders calling for G7 to fund a global vaccination programme

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair
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The world’s richest countries should foot most of the bill for vaccinating the entire global population against Covid-19, according to a letter signed by 230 international leaders.

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair are among more than 100 former prime ministers, presidents and foreign ministers who have co-signed the written plea to the current leaders of the UK, US, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada to pay two-thirds of the estimated $66bn (£46.5bn) cost.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.