Half of people in poorer countries have now received two vaccine doses against Covid-19, a global vaccine alliance says, hailing progress in closing the vaccine equity gap
Gavi, the WHO and others have long condemned the stark inequities in access to vaccines developed to battle the still-raging Covid pandemic.
Gavi, which co-leads the Covax global vaccine distribution scheme with the World Health Organization and others, said on Thursday 92 lower-income countries receiving donor-funded jabs had reached 50-percent coverage on average. "Vaccine inequity is the biggest moral failure of our times and people and countries are paying the price," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said earlier this year."Lower-income countries have made remarkable strides," it said in a statement celebrating the "key Covid-19 coverage milestone".Gavi highlighted the dramatic improvement since the start of the year, when on average only 31 percent of people across the 92 countries had received the two initial jabs.
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