Professor Andrew Hayward, of University College London’s Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, said the effort to vaccinate the world is “massively too small” and will have a “huge drain” on the global economy.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Earlier in the year, the G7 met and came up with a pledge of one billion vaccine donations towards the global vaccination scheme.
“Now that sounds a lot of vaccines, but actually, we need more like 11 billion, so it’s only a small percentage of what is needed to protect the rest of the world.”
He said at the moment 75% of the vaccines that have been distributed around the world have gone to about 10% of the countries, adding that some continents, like in Africa for example, has only around 2% of their population vaccinated and “remain extremely vulnerable, and just can’t really return to normal”.
Prof Hayward said: “This lack of global vaccination coverage will…
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