GENEVA, March 11 ― Three years since the Covid pandemic began, nearly 200 prominent world figures called today for the vaccine inequity seen during the crisis to be relegated...
GENEVA, March 11 ― Three years since the Covid pandemic began, nearly 200 prominent world figures called today for the vaccine inequity seen during the crisis to be relegated to history.
The letter, coordinated by the NGO coalition People's Vaccine Alliance, was signed by Timor-Leste President Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta, who won the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside the former leaders of more than 40 countries. Still today, fewer than a third of people in low-income countries have received at least one vaccine dose, while three quarters of people have in high-income countries, according to UN data.
The letter pointed to a study last year in the science journal Nature estimating that 1.3 million fewer people would have died of Covid if the jabs had been distributed equitably in 2021, amounting to “one preventable death every 24 seconds” that year.
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