A slew of bilateral deals between governments and drugmakers to secure millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines is putting at risk a WHO co-led initiative to bulk-buy and equitably distribute the pandemic vaccines around the world
This, according to global health charity Medecins Sans Frontieres , will further fuel “the global scramble to hoard vaccines by rich countries” and feed “a dangerous trend of vaccine nationalism”.
However COVID-19 is a far greater threat, and leaving swathes of the world’s people vulnerable will not only harm them, but also extend the pandemic and the damage it can cause, health experts say. And an EU source said last week that the European Commission, which is the bloc’s executive arm and leads EU talks with drugmakers, has advised EU countries not to buy COVID-19 vaccines via COVAX.
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