Gordon Brown warned that the failure of the world to get vaccines to the developing world is coming back to haunt us.
The world was warned that a lack of vaccines in poorer countries could have serious consequences, according to the Labour former prime minister.
He pointed out that only 3% of people in low-income countries are fully protected from vaccine-related diseases compared with more than 60% in the rest of the world.
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He said that Covid is spreading in the absence of mass vaccination and that new versions are emerging out of the poor countries and are threatening to unleash themselves on even fully vaccined people.
Brown said world leaders needed a global accord to ensure better distribution and accused the EU of being neocolonial.
The good news is that the new Nu variant has been identified quickly and is being mapped at a rapid pace, and if it proves to be more transmissible but immune to current vaccines, a new vaccine will soon emerge. There is only a Herculean effort this week to allay fears that new mutations among unvaccinated people in the least protected places will take Covid into a third year.
