Striving to fill the gap in vaccine production and rollout

BY the end of May 2021, only 2.1% of Africans have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. We need to close the vaccination gap between advanced economies and developing countries to avoid what Tedros Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation, has called "vaccination apartheid".

Doing so is both morally right and in everyone’s interest. Therefore, we need global multilateral action to increase the production of vaccines and accelerate the rollout worldwide.