Study: 70 poor countries will not be able to vaccinate their residents next year
More than a fifth of the world's population may not be able to obtain a Corona vaccine until 2022, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said rich countries would retain more than half of the potential doses over the next year.
The study indicated that rich countries, whose population is estimated at about 14% of the world's population, have requested more than half of the Corona vaccine doses in advance, which are expected to be produced during the next year, by 13 companies.
The study pointed out that even if all pharmaceutical companies produced vaccines and achieved the largest possible vaccine manufacturing rate, at least one-fifth of the Earth's population would not receive vaccines until 2022.
The study, published in the "BMG" medical journal, added that the total vaccination doses reserved since mid-November reached 7.48 billion doses, which means vaccination of 3.76 billion people.
Most of the vaccines that were produced require a person to receive two doses to create immunity against the Corona virus.
It is expected that 5.96 doses will be produced by the end of 2021, according to the study.
On the other hand, the "People's Vaccine Alliance", an institution emerging from Oxfam's cooperation with Amnesty International, said that 70 poor countries will not be able to vaccinate 90% of their population next year, according to a report by the American "CNBC" network.
And professor of health economics at Oxford University, Philip Clark, said, "High-income countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, will be in the first row (who have received the Corona vaccine)."
Clark added, "The failure is evident here, and it is represented in the absence of international institutions and strong funding to pay for the (Corona) vaccine worldwide."
The new Corona virus has caused the death of one million and 636 thousand and 687 people in the world since the WHO office in China was informed of the outbreak of the disease at the end of December 2019.
More than 73 million 462,340 people have been infected with the virus in the world, of whom at least 47,202,800 have recovered to date.
The United States is the country most affected by the epidemic, with 303,867 deaths out of 16 million infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University census.
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