The leaders criticised the glaring inequity that characterised the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GENEVA - Three years since the Covid-19 pandemic began, nearly 200 prominent world figures called on Saturday for the vaccine inequity seen during the crisis to be relegated to history.
The letter, coordinated by the NGO coalition People’s Vaccine Alliance, was signed by Timor-Leste President Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta, who won the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside the former leaders of more than 40 countries. Still today, fewer than a third of people in low-income countries have received at least one vaccine dose, while three quarters of people have in high-income countries, according to UN data.
The letter urged leaders to support the tricky, ongoing international negotiations towards a pandemic accord, to ensure that equity is a key feature in the final agreement.
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