Quarter of the world may not get Covid-19 vaccine till at least 2022: Study
Nearly a
quarter of the world's population may not have access to a Covid-19 vaccine until at least 2022,
according to a study published in The BMJ on Wednesday which warns that vaccines
will be as challenging to deliver as they were to develop.
Another
study in the same journal estimates that 3.7 billion adults worldwide are
willing to have a Covid-19 vaccine, highlighting the importance of designing
fair and equitable strategies to ensure that supply can meet demand, especially
in low and middle income countries.
These
findings together suggest that the operational challenges of the global
Covid-19 vaccination programme will be at least as difficult as the scientific
challenges associated with their development.
In the
first study, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health in the US analysed pre-orders for COVID-19 vaccines ahead of their
regulatory approval that had been publicly announced by countries around the
world. Read More
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