Coronavirus vaccines: When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn’t get them. Now they don’t want them
EDWARD MCALLISTER and COOPER INVEEN, of Reuters, report…
COVID-19’s pharma billionaires could vaccinate the world’s poor, charities say
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation COVID-19 vaccine profits have created at least nine billionaires whose combined wealth would be enough to inoculate all of the world’s poor, a coalition of charities and activists said on Thursday, calling for a more equitable distribution of jabs. The new billionaires – who include senior executives from US firm Moderna […]
Poor countries seen missing out as rich nations hoard COVID-19 vaccines
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nine out of 10 people in dozens of poor nations could miss out on getting vaccinated against COVID-19 next year because rich countries have hoarded far more doses than they need, campaigners said on Wednesday. Rich nations, home to 14 per cent of the global population, had bought 53 per cent of […]