With the US showing the way, it is also right that relatively wealthy smaller countries like Ireland should be asked to share. Some countries have promised to share spare doses but only when their own populations have been vaccinated. Wealthier countries should donate spare vaccines to poorer countries now, while still vaccinating at home. If poorer countries have to wait many more months before it receives vaccines, the virus is likely to spread and mutate. It is in all our interests to share vaccines because this pandemic will not be over anywhere until it is over everywhere.

Source: Irish Examiner June 10, 2021 06:56 UTC