Is vaccinating against Covid enough? What we can learn from Chile and Israel Robin McKie Observer science editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Corinna Kern/Reuters
A trio of countries stand out for the effectiveness of their Covid-19 vaccination programmes: Israel, Chile and the UK. All have managed to inoculate an impressively high percentage of their people but each has fared very differently in controlling the disease.
Israel has done so well it is resuming university lectures, concerts and other mass gatherings and has opened up its restaurants and bars. By contrast, Chile is experiencing soaring levels of Covid cases and faces new lockdown restrictions.
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Cop26: ‘Obscene’ vaccine inequality led to Greta Thunberg exit
Date: 9 April 2021
Vaccine campaigners have said Greta Thunberg is “absolutely right” to condemn an uneven distribution of vaccines preventing low and middle income countries from participating in COP26 on equal terms.
The Swedish climate campaigner said she will not attend the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow this November.
Countries like the UK should “step up” and support waiving patents on Covid-19 vaccinations, as the Biden administration is considering, to ensure the summit goes ahead, campaigners say.
Global Justice Now, an NGO campaigning for equitable vaccine access, has condemned government inaction over vaccines, saying “If world leaders cannot sort out an equitable distribution of vaccines, how can we trust them to save the planet from the brink of destruction?”