UK, EU and US ‘get more Covid vaccines in six weeks than Africa has all year’

Analysis from People’s Vaccine Alliance highlights gulf as it calls for dose recipes to be shared

The UK, European Union and the US have received more doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the past six weeks than African countries have all year, according to analysis from the People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA).

The research comes after the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown called the rollout a “stain on our soul” and organisations and charities stepped up calls for Moderna and Pfizer to share their vaccine recipes, and for governments to distribute urgently needed vaccines to poorer nations.

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