Beirut: Rich countries began to hoard the vaccines against Covid-19, to the detriment of the poorest unable to buy them, refers a note from a coalition of humanitarian organizations quoted here today, Prensa Latina publishes.
The People’s Vaccine Alliance said about 70 low-income nations will immunize just one in 10 people.
Oxford-AstraZeneca pledge indicated the intention to provide 64 percent of its doses to developing countries, but will only raise about 700 million to distribute among the 92 lowest-income enrollees.
Even with that project, the People’s Vaccine Alliance anticipates that it will not be enough and sought from pharmaceutical companies to share technology to increase production.
The People’s study found that some wealthy states acquired enough to vaccinate their populations three times.
What is acquired by Canada, for example, supposes five times its needs, points out the non-governmental organization. Although 14 percent of the world’s population lives in rich nations, they have already secured 53 percent of the most promising vaccines so far.
“No one should be prevented from receiving a life-saving vaccine?, Anna Marriott, Oxfam’s health policy manager stressed. Unless a drastic change occurs, she continued, billions of people will not receive a safe and effective vaccine against Covid-19, she lamented.