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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Philippa Kelly, Ashley Kirk and Kaamil Ahmed

Covid vaccine figures lay bare global inequality as global target missed

A health worker with during the xaccination campaign on May 05, 2021 in Goma, Congo. The central African country received 1.7 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine through the UN-led COVAX facility in March.
A health worker in Goma, DRC. The country received 1.7m doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the first Covax shipments in March 2021. Photograph: Guerchom Ndebo/Getty Images

The international target to vaccinate 70% of the world’s population against Covid by mid-2022 was missed because poorer countries were at the “back of the queue” when vaccines were rolled out, say campaigners.

The latest figures from Our World in Data show huge inequalities in vaccination rates around the world, with just one in seven people in low-income countries fully vaccinated. By comparison, nearly three in four people in high-income nations have been vaccinated for around a year.

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