'Hang Heads in Shame,' South Africa President Tells Rome Health Summit
South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa, July 2018. Photo: www.kremlin.ru Rome: Rich nation leaders and big drugmakers promised on Friday to do more to bridge the startling divide in fighting COVID-19, with an increased flow of badly-needed vaccines to poorer regions. Lavishly-funded mass inoculation campaigns are helping many wealthy countries slash infections, but few shots have reached less developed nations where the virus still rages sometimes uncontrollably, drawing accusations of “vaccine apartheid”. To date, some 1.53 billion doses have been administered globally, but only around 1...