Will there be a rich vaccine and a poor vaccine?: Dawn columnist

The arrival of vaccines is undoubtedly a hopeful event but less so is the fact that the vaccine disbursal will follow the usual global diagrams of wealth inequality, says the writer. - AFP

ISLAMABAD (Dawn/ANN): It is finally vaccine time -- at least in some places. A little over a week ago, the first person was vaccinated against Covid-19 in the United Kingdom.

This week, the United States began to vaccinate its own front-line healthcare workers. A great deal of drama surrounded the rollout; cable news cameras were there to provide live feeds of the vaccine, which is produced by the Pfizer plant in Michigan, being loaded into two special refrigerated trucks.