When will a Covid-19 vaccine be available to you?

Business Daily

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4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Covid-19 vaccine rollouts across the world demonstrate huge global health inequalities. Many countries in the global south are struggling to access one of the vaccines currently available around the world. That's despite a global facility called COVAX, set up under the auspices of the world health organisation, tasked with helping low and middle income countries access vaccines. While rich countries have accumulated extensive supply deals some countries may have to wait until 2022 or later before supplies are widely available. We hear from Mesfin Teklu Tessema, head of the Health Unit at the International Rescue Committee and Fatima Hussein, a human rights lawyer and founder of the Health Justice Initiative in South Africa. Plus Sir Mene Pangalos. the executive vice president of biopharmaceutical R&D at AstraZeneca which developed its Covid-19 vaccine in conjunction with oxford university and has made it available on a not-for-profit basis.

(Photo: an Israeli healthcare worker prepares a dose of the covid-19 vaccine. Credit: Getty Images.)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa.
0:06.6	Coming up, vaccinating the global South.
0:09.4	We already have many approvals, regulatory approvals in South America.
0:13.3	We have approval in India.
0:14.7	We do need to get regulatory approvals to be able to distribute the vaccine.
0:18.7	And of course, there are still many approvals to come, but our aim is
0:22.3	to get as many people immunised this year as we possibly can. We hear from vaccine maker AstraZeneca,
0:28.2	amid concern in the global South about equal access to COVID vaccines. People who are young and
0:34.9	healthy may actually get a vaccine in parts of the global north
0:39.2	before a healthcare worker at a public health facility in South Africa.
0:43.2	And that is inequitable and it's unfair.
0:45.8	That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.
0:52.0	The world's largest vaccination campaign is starting in India.
0:59.0	I congratulate all of my countrymen for this.
1:02.8	Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi there launching the country's mammoth COVID vaccination program at the weekend.
1:11.1	In the very first phase, India is going to vaccinate 30 million people.
1:15.2	We will bring a number of vaccinations to 300 million in the second phase.
1:18.6	In the next phase, old people with chronic diseases will be vaccinated.
1:23.6	Some 1.3 billion people there are set to get the jab.
1:27.1	A challenge amid growing vaccine skepticism.
1:30.3	Others hope the vaccination program will inject confidence into India's economy.
1:34.6	That's after restrictive lockdowns there plunged many into poverty.
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