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Vaccines are “lights of hope if they are available to all“The Pope said today in the Urbi et Orbi blessing on Christmas Day. The object of the Head of the Church’s warning is not accidental: i Rich countries in fact the world is already insured many more doses than necessary, so that the inhabitants of different parts of the world could remain unprotected from the coronavirus until 2023 or 2024.
And so, while the United States and the United Kingdom have already started vaccinating citizens, large regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia are seeing their own Economic recovery.
The Pope’s call on vaccines “for all”
“The laws of the market and patents are above the laws of health and humanity.He said French Pope, asking for doses to be administered “first to the poor and needy”.
But reality is already going in another direction. Of the 5.3 billion doses of the coronavirus vaccine that will be produced over the next year, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the United States and Japan have secured half. Together, these countries represent only 13% of the world’s population.
Rich countries have bought far more vaccines than necessary
According to an Airfinity ranking, Canada is the best supplied country with around 9 doses per capita. The United States has reserved more than two doses per inhabitant, with the possibility of increasing the offer to more than 7 doses per inhabitant.
Other countries like China, India and Russia can count on the production of local pharmaceutical companies, while all the others will have to rely heavily on charity. And already a quarter of the world’s population will not have access to the vaccine until at least 2022.
