COVID-19 vaccination disparity raises vexed questions of ethics and economics
Pandemic unlikely to be considered over until a suitably large proportion of the world’s population is vaccinated
Provision of vaccines to the developing world viewed as both a humanitarian imperative and an economic necessity
Updated 33 min 19 sec ago
Cornelia Meyer
June 08, 2021 22:21
BERNE: How vaccines can be fairly distributed to the global population has vexed world leaders and international agencies ever since the first shots against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were made available at the end of last year.
The issue was high on the agenda of the recent World Health Organization (WHO) general assembly, and the G7 heads of state are bound to further ponder the matter when they meet this weekend.