Amnesty demands two billion Covid jabs for poorer worldAmnesty claims vaccine manufacturers are not living up to their commitments to provide the Covid jab to poorer nations. LONDON: Covid vaccine manufacturers are putting profit before lives, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, as it demanded two billion doses for poorer nations by the end of the year. The group said AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer had all refused to share doses or technology to enable more of the world to get Covid jabs. Out of 5.76 billion doses administered worldwide, only 0.3 percent have gone to low-income countries with over 79 percent heading to upper-middle and high-income countries, it said. AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson were selling their doses at cost price, it noted.

Source: Bangkok Post September 22, 2021 00:11 UTC