Vaccine access one of many fights facing vulnerable Global South
A worker stands next to the shipment of 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines at Cambodia’s Phnom Penh International Airport Feb. 7, 2021. The vaccines were donated by China. (CNS photo/Cindy Liu, Reuters)
By Junno Arocho Esteves • Catholic News Service • Posted February 12, 2021
VATICAN CITY (CNS) When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Pope Francis warned it could make inequalities existing around the world even worse.
While the discovery of COVID-19 vaccines offered a spark of hope for a world seeking a way back to normalcy, Aloysius John, secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis, said what Pope Francis warned about can been seen in the geographical distribution of the vaccines.
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