Opinion: Vaccine apartheid shows that, once again, the free market has failed

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Some 80 per cent of the 4 billion vaccine doses delivered globally have gone into the arms of those in higher-income countries

, which represents less than half of the world’s population. Meanwhile, only 1 per cent of those in low-income countries have been given one dose. In Africa, just 2 per cent of nearly 1.3 billion people have received a first dose. And as wealthy countries pledge to send more doses to the developing world, most people in poor countries will be waiting years to be vaccinated.

 

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