you know i've never felt professional
it's such a moment of joy
last november the world rejoiced the
first vaccines for kobe 19
were ready could this be the beginning
of the end of the pandemic
well not if you live in a poor country
vaccines have started rolling out in the
tens of millions in rich countries
but in low-income countries it's not
even hundreds
that's partly because most of the
vaccines have already been bought by
rich nations
canada has enough to immunise each
citizen
five times we will now have 80
million doses of covert 19 vaccines
arriving this year so where does this
leave the rest of the world
well many countries are going to miss
out for some time
millions of people will have to wait
until at least 2022
look at latin america it has a quarter
of all coronavirus deaths
doctors and nurses have been badly hit
but the rollout of the vaccine has been
uneven and slow and then you have places
like argentina venezuela
and bolivia that have approved sputnik v
the vaccine developed by the russian
government
even though it hasn't completed clinical
trials
low-income countries are looking at
kovacs for some of the vaccinations
it's a global initiative that wants to
provide 2 billion doses
for free don't start distributing them
in february
but there aren't many vaccines left for
kovacs to buy
it's the most unequal of races the world
is
on the brink of a catastrophic moral
failure
guinea is the only low-income country to
have delivered
any shots to date so some countries are
having to find
different strategies take india it's got
huge capacity to manufacture medications
and vaccines
so it started supplying vaccines to
other countries
while immunizing its own people first
and then there's indonesia they're using
a completely different approach
vaccinating younger people first because
they're the most likely to get the virus
and spread it the african union has
struck a deal to secure
207 million vaccines
it sounds like a lot but there are more
than one billion people in africa
and they don't know when they're getting
them so
is there a way to make vaccine rollout
fairer
well if pharmaceutical companies told
generic medicine manufacturers
how they made it everyone could produce
more vaccines
but most of them have been reluctant to
do it
they say they're giving them to
low-income countries at reduced rates
with many countries not vaccinating
until next year
the end of the pandemic feels a long way
off
you