Ethiopian Airlines staff unload AstraZeneca vaccines from a cargo plane at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 7. As rich countries hoard vaccines, the Covax programme has only distributed 77 million doses to some of the world’s poorest people so far. Photo: Reuters
Opinion
Opinion
How the rich world’s vaccine nationalism will cost everyone in the end
- Just as travel bans have failed to keep Covid-19 variants out of countries, vaccine nationalism will fail too
- The longer that the wider world remains unvaccinated, the more variants are going to spread. Some may not be as responsive to current vaccines
Ethiopian Airlines staff unload AstraZeneca vaccines from a cargo plane at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on March 7. As rich countries hoard vaccines, the Covax programme has only distributed 77 million doses to some of the world’s poorest people so far. Photo: Reuters
