It showed a Turkish immigrant family of six in Germany in the 1970s. The husband-and-wife founders of BioNTech – Şahin and Özlem Türeci – came from Turkish families that moved to Germany. “Here’s to the immigrant heroes behind the BioNTech vaccine,” cheered Bloomberg. By December, wealthy countries that accounted for 14% of the world’s population had already bought up more than half the supply of the leading vaccine candidates. In a February interview with the Financial Times, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, acknowledged that wealthy countries had to do more.

Source: The Guardian March 02, 2021 16:07 UTC