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London/Chicago - It's dog eat dog in the world of Covid-19 vaccines.
"Everybody doing bilateral deals is not a way to optimize the situation," said Seth Berkley, chief executive of the GAVI alliance which co-leads the scheme called COVAX designed to secure rapid and fair global access to Covid-19 vaccines. This, according to global health charity Medecins Sans Frontieres , will further fuel"the global scramble to hoard vaccines by rich countries" and feed"a dangerous trend of vaccine nationalism".
However Covid-19 is a far greater threat, and leaving swathes of the world's people vulnerable will not only harm them, but also extend the pandemic and the damage it can cause, health experts say. And an EU source said last week that the European Commission, which is the bloc's executive arm and leads EU talks with drugmakers, has advised EU countries not to buy Covid-19 vaccines via COVAX.
Experts estimate the world can reasonably hope to have around 2 billion doses of effective Covid-19 vaccines by the end of next year, if several of the leading candidates prove effective in expedited late-stage trials currently underway. COVAX's aim is to distribute doses for at least 20% of its signed-up countries' populations.
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