A fifth of the world’s population may have to wait more than a year to get Covid-19 vaccine

At least a fifth of the world’s population will not have access to Covid-19 vaccines until 2022, according to a new analysis.The study of pre-approval orders placed for drugs found that high-income countries, which comprise 14 per cent of the world’s population, have reserved half the 7.5 billion does from 13 leading vaccine developers.The team from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US found that low and middle income countries had placed orders with six manufacturers…

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