Letters | Hong Kong Covid vaccines: don’t sell, do global duty and just donate
- The idea that one of the richest territories on earth should be charging the likes of Nepal to take on the short-dated vaccines that it has not been able to use seems really quite egregious

In the article, William Chui Chun-ming, president of the Society for Hospital Pharmacists, said the city faced three choices: to incinerate the leftover doses, to donate them or to sell them on to other countries.
We should always look to secure the best value and savings for the public purse. But, more than ever, we also need to work together as a global community to fight this infection and move on to a better, safer future for all.
Given this, the idea that Hong Kong, one of the richest territories on earth, should be charging Nepal, still classified by the United Nations as among the least developed countries in the world, to take on the short-dated vaccines we have not been able to use seems really quite egregious.

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In an ideal world, of course, we would not have these precious vaccines going unused in the first place. However, under the circumstances in which we find ourselves, the least we can do is to make the best of a bad situation and step up as a good global citizen.
