(ANSA) - NEW YORK, DECEMBER 16 - A quarter of the world may not have access to the coronavirus vaccine until 2022. Lorivela a report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, according to which "just over half (51%) of the planned for administration - almost 7.5 billion, for 3.7 billion people - will go to high-income countries, which represent 14% of the world population ".
As reported by CNN, at the time of writing, the United States had optioned 800 million doses, while Japan and Australia, despite representing less than 1% of cases, had options on a billion doses. "High-income countries have booked just over half of the vaccine doses planned by the 13 major drug manufacturers - it says - while low and middle-income countries will have the rest, despite accounting for over 85% of the world population".
"Even if all 13 vaccine manufacturers were able to reach their maximum production capacity, at least one fifth of the world population would not have access to vaccines until 2022," the researchers added. (HANDLE)