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Inequity in access to Covid-19 vaccines abets second wave Kaushik Basu More than one billion vaccine doses have now been administered worldwide, but vast disparities remain. As the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic outstrips the severity of the first, a clear global bifurcation is emerging. The pandemic is abating, gradually and unevenly, across richer countries, but flaring up in several developing and emerging economies, most notably India, but also to varying degrees in countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Turkey, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and Kenya. There are many reasons for this divide, but uneven access to health care particularly the glaring inequity in access to Covid-19 vaccines is impossible to ignore. On January 18, the director-general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Ghebreyesus, noted that more than 39 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine had been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. By contrast, he said, “Just 25 doses have been

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