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Omicron and how vaccine inequality could prolong the pandemic | Interview with Covax chief
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December 14, 2021
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26:31Now PlayingWithout vaccination, variants beyond Omicron will prolong pandemic – Covax chief Aurélia Nguyen.
As a new Covid variant, Omicron, causes concern about the effectiveness and global equity of vaccine programmes, is the project to deliver vaccines to the Global South working?
New Statesman reporter Harry Clarke-Ezzidio interviews Aurélia Nguyen, the managing director of Covax, an organisation set up to ensure fair access to Covid vaccines. They discuss criticism of the current vaccination programme, whether richer countries are hoarding vaccines, and why the world needs to cooperate to defeat the pandemic.
The premise of Covax is simple: identify, buy and deliver vaccines to lower-middle and low-income countries that would otherwise struggle to secure doses in a market free-for-all against wealthy (mainly Western) nations.
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