Covid vaccine inequity due to racism rooted in ‘slavery and colonialism’

Global failure to redress race-based injustice has led to higher death rates and worsened discrimination, UN says

Racism rooted in slavery, colonialism and apartheid is responsible for higher Covid death rates among people of African and Asian descent, as well as Roma and Indigenous peoples, a UN body has said.

That the vast majority of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in high and upper-middle-income countries replicated “slavery and colonial-era racial hierarchies”, according to the committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd).

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