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COVID vaccines to reach poorest countries in 2023 — despite recent pledges

Amid a COVID surge in Africa, vaccine promises from richer nations are not enough to bring an early end to the pandemic, experts say.
  1. T. V. Padma

    1. T. V. Padma is a science journalist based in New Delhi, India.

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Most people in the poorest countries will need to wait another two years before they are vaccinated against COVID-19, researchers have told Nature.

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Nature 595, 342-343 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01762-w

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  • Clarification 09 July 2021: An earlier version of this story said that China had shipped 30 million vaccines. In fact, that’s the number China had donated; it has exported many more to fulfil orders.

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