The UK is lagging behind other G7 countries in sharing surplus Covid vaccines with poorer countries, according to newly published figures.
The advocacy organisation One, which is campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030, described it as shaming for the UK government.
The figures show that the UK is behind every member of the G7 – of which Britain is currently the chair – except for Japan.
Romilly Greenhill, the One’s UK director, said the number of vaccines the UK is committed to sharing this year is half that promised by France, less than a a third of Germany’s, and a tenth of that pledged by the US. She said: “We hosted the G7 this year. We are claiming global leadership in vaccine rollout, but when you look in detail at the level of ambition we are showing, we are falling way behind other major economies.
“In a critical week with the G20, the spending review and the Cop26, we are weakening our international reputation.”
The One figures,…
