After 10 months to plan, why is the world muddling through vaccination? The incompetence of countries in dealing with the onslaught of Covid-19 is being mirrored in their incompetence at vaccination, writes Clara Ferreira Marques A Romanian gendarme waits to get a Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Across the Balkans and the rest of the nations in the southeastern corner of Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process. Picture: AP Sun, 17 Jan, 2021 - 18:03 Clara Ferreira-Marques The World Health Organization struggled. Too many countries, even those supposedly best prepared for a pandemic, flailed and failed to grasp lessons from each other’s experiences, at the cost of 2 million lives and trillions of euros.