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Press Association 2021
The Earth photographed from one million miles way by a Nasa camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (NOAA/PA)
Almost a quarter of the world’s population will not have access to a Covid-19 vaccine until 2022, according to new research.
Experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore in the US said high-income countries have already secured billions of doses, with uncertainty around access for middle and low-income countries.
Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), they noted that, of the 48 Covid-19 vaccines currently approved or in development, 13 manufacturers have entered into agreements for at least 7.48 billion doses.