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It is feared that poor countries will be delayed in vaccination, because rich countries are “storing” more doses of the coronavirus vaccine than they need.
According to the agencies, rich countries have accumulated a large enough stock of vaccine doses to immunize their people almost 3 times by the end of next year, waiting for all vaccines to be officially approved by their governments and health agencies.
These statistics come from the People’s Vaccine Alliance, which includes Oxfam and Amnesty International, and the statistics were obtained by analyzing the agreements that were made between countries and 8 large vaccine producing companies.
Among the statistics that were reached, it is found that all the doses of the next Modern vaccine were bought by rich countries, and 96 percent of the new doses of the Pfizer vaccine were bought in rich countries.
As a result, 53 percent of vaccine doses were insured for only 14 percent of the world’s population; for example, Canada received enough doses to vaccinate every Canadian citizen 5 times.
On the other hand, the coalition said that poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people next year.
Among the poor countries, which will be late for treatment, 5 countries have so far registered 1.5 million cases of corona, which are Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan and Ukraine.
Even the promise of the Oxford vaccine, of providing 64 percent of the vaccine for developing countries, will not be enough to vaccinate the third world population.
Only 18 percent of the world’s population is likely to be vaccinated in 2021.
The Vaccine Alliance says governments and drug manufacturers must take urgent action to ensure there are enough doses of vaccines for the world, not just countries that can afford them.
“Vaccine storage actively undermines global efforts to ensure everyone everywhere is protected from COVID-19,” said Stephen Cockburn, Director of Economic and Social Justice at Amnesty International.
“Rich countries have clear obligations in the field of human rights, not only to refrain from actions that could harm the obtaining of vaccines elsewhere, but also to cooperate and provide assistance to countries that need them,” he added.
