It is “morally wrong” to offer Covid-19 jabs to children in wealthy countries when high-risk groups in poorer nations remain unvaccinated, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said.
Professor Andrew Pollard, who helped develop the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab, said global vaccine inequity was “plain to see”.
His comments come as it emerged that the UK has secured enough vaccine to offer the Pfizer jab for use in children aged 12 and older if it is clinically approved.
But Prof Pollard said that children had a “near-to-zero” risk of severe disease or death from Covid-19.
And the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that some countries were only just beginning to vaccinate those at highest risk from Covid-19.
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