Prognosis
Vaccine Shortfall Leaves Nations Vulnerable as Covid Spreads
- Covax’s struggles increase calls for richer nations to share
- UNICEF director worries India’s deadly surge is a precursor
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The campaign to deliver Covid-19 vaccines to vast parts of the world is grappling with a significant supply shortage, leaving many nations vulnerable and piling pressure on wealthy governments to share doses.
The initiative known as Covax expects the shortfall to reach about 190 million doses next month, UNICEF, one of its partners, said on Monday. Covax has shipped less than 40% of the doses it had intended to distribute by now, hurt by delays in supplies from hard-hit India, a global hub of vaccine production.