COVID-19: Should the UK export vaccines to help India reign in the pandemic?

  • Date: 30-Apr-2021
  • Source: The Economist
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Saudi Arabia
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COVID-19: Should the UK export vaccines to help India reign in the pandemic?

One in five doses being jabbed around the world is made in India. The country is also the largest exporter of COVID-19 vaccines to the rest of the world.

Yet, when it comes to inoculating its own people against coronavirus, the South Asian nation has barely covered a tenth of its population, and is now seeing a record number of new deaths every day.

There are fears over whether India's demand for vaccines to tackle the pandemic might impact other, often lower-income countries in their fights against COVID-19.