Sunday, 7 February, 2021 - 08:15
Queen Rania of Jordan. File photo
Amman - Asharq Al-Awsat
Queen Rania of Jordan has stated that there is no reason why countries that have an excessive supply of vaccines can't donate their surplus to poorer states, as she called for fair distribution.
“We are all in a race against a pandemic, not against each other,” Queen Rania said, adding that any single country's inability to recover from this crisis could lead to instability and insecurity for all.
Her statements were made while participating virtually in the Warwick Economics Summit.
The Queen explained that while some wealthy countries have pre-ordered enough vaccine doses to immunize their populations three times over, "lower-income countries will at best only manage to vaccinate a tenth of their populations" this year.