The COVAX global vaccine-sharing programme has delivered 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to the world’s poorer nations, a milestone reached over the weekend when a consignment of jabs landed in Rwanda.
But there is still a way to go in the struggle for global vaccine fairness: while the UK and other wealthy nations roll out their third dose booster programmes, 40 per cent of the world’s population has yet to receive a first dose.
