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Lower-income countries fall behind in race for vaccines
Dose shortages risk prolonging pandemic for years, experts warn
World Economy News
20 Jan 2021 • 4 min read
Inadequate supplies of Covid-19 vaccines for lower-income countries mean it could take years to inoculate some parts of the world, undermining global efforts to end the pandemic.
Desperate to vaccinate their populations against Covid-19, high-income nations, home to about 1bn people, have secured 4.2bn doses, approximately 74 per cent of total government orders, according to the latest weekly data compiled by the Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University of North Carolina. In contrast, lower-middle and low-income countries have secured orders for only 675m doses.
English By Lenny Ruvaga Share on Facebook Print this page NAIROBI - Kenyan scientists have raised an alarm on a coronavirus variant they say differs from the one spreading in South Africa and Britain.
About 10 investigators from the Kenya Medical Research Institute, or KEMRI, discovered the mutation of the virus responsible for the COVID-19 disease.
Charles Agoti, a principal investigator and researcher, says that the variant unique to Kenya was detected in a batch of samples taken from Taita Taveta county, located in the southeastern part of the country.
“Our interpretation is that because in this one place in Kenya we were seeing, it represents the majority of the sequenced samples; it does imply that actually, it could if it has intrinsic properties, be more transmissible, Agoti said. It could result in an increase in the number of cases locally.”
The world was on "on the brink of catastrophic moral failure, over vaccine distribution, the head of the World Health Organization said Monday. Dr. Tedros
The world is on the edge of a “catastrophic moral failure” in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, with just 25 doses administered across all poor countries compared with 39m in wealthier ones, the head of the World Health Organization has said. It was the sharpest warning so far from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus about the dangers of vaccine hoarding since inoculations started being administered in 49 mostly high-income countries. Guinea is the.
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