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Outside of the Australian bubble, the collateral impacts of COVID-19 have set low-income countries back years – perhaps even decades. Australia has a The impacts of COVID-19 have set low-income countries decades. Australia has a responsibility to help, Arunn Jegan and Simon Eccleshall write.

April 29, 2021 Numbers are handed out to people waiting to receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre Malawi. Credit:AP Save Normal text size Very large text size Australia is among a group of rich countries accused of standing in the way of some of the world’s poorest, which are seeking to free up the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines at a meeting of World Trade Organisation member states on Friday. Backed by more than 115 other countries, India and South ...