A Kenyan health care worker prepares to administer a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Many poorer countries are far behind Western nations in their roll-out programmes, being unable to purchase vaccines at the same scale and price. Photo: EPA-EFE
Opinion
Opinion
Asian Angle
‘Vaccine apartheid’: how white privilege is woven into the fabric of globalisation
- The roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines, with poor countries far behind, has exposed the moral bankruptcy and structural privilege of Western nations
- What can be done? They should shed their ideas of moral authority and a monopoly on scientific expertise, even amid insecurity about China’s rise
A Kenyan health care worker prepares to administer a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Many poorer countries are far behind Western nations in their roll-out programmes, being unable to purchase vaccines at the same scale and price. Photo: EPA-EFE
