THE failure to ensure equal access to Covid vaccines across the globe is a “disgrace” which “bodes badly” for tackling issues such as the climate crisis, an SNP MP has warned.
Speaking at a fringe event at the SNP conference, Dr Philippa Whitford, who chairs the House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Group on Vaccinations, said pledges by the international community to face the Covid pandemic together had “utterly failed”.
She said the Covax initiative which was set up early in 2020 to ensure equitable access to Covid tests, treatments and vaccines had only been of “limited help”.
