Covax misses its 2021 delivery target — what’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism?
The Hindu
On average, three COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered per 100 people in low-income countries, compared to more than 120 in high-income countries
The latest supply forecast for Covax — the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world — suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely. Covax estimates it will have distributed 1.425 billion vaccine doses by the end of 2021, significantly less than the 2 billion doses it was aiming for earlier this year.
Only 280.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been given out through Covax as of September 15, 2021. With some high-income countries rolling out boosters and vaccinating children before many low-income countries have even given their adults a first dose, vaccine inequality is showing no sign of disappearing.
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