Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers are putting profit before lives, Amnesty International has said, as it demanded two billion doses for poorer nations by the end of the year.
The group, according to Reuters, said AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer had all refused to share doses or technology to enable more of the world to get Covid-19 jabs.
Most people in the rich world have been inoculated, but parts of Latin America, Africa and Asia have plunged into renewed crises with “tens of thousands of preventable deaths every week”, Amnesty said.
Out of 5.76 billion doses administered worldwide, only 0.3 per cent have gone to low-income countries with over 79pc heading to upper-middle and high-income countries, it said.
