That was a question being asked a year ago, when wealthy countries accounting for only 15% of the global population had 80% of the Covid deaths. Even then, some were warning that the worst was yet to come, once the disease took hold in poorer countries. “It took nine months to reach 1 million deaths, four months to reach 2 million, and three months to reach 3 million,” WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said last week. Partly because they have seen relatively few Covid deaths locally, people in Hong Kong are staying away from vaccine clinics – a manifestation of the so-called “prevention paradox”. But we can be confident that poorer countries will contribute most of this year’s Covid deaths.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2021 06:00 UTC