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have supported waiving intellectual property rights for vaccines in order to boost much-needed supplies, joining over 100 other countries and a global movement spearheaded by South Africa and India at the World Trade Organization.
The People’s Vaccine Alliance, a coalition of organizations like Oxfam and Amnesty International, health experts and world leaders—including South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is attending the G-7 summit— it could take low-income countries 57 years fully vaccinate their populations, a milestone it believes G-7 countries could reach in early January. 500 million dose contribution of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine—are welcome but “a drop in the bucket compared to the need across the world,” according to Oxfam America’s Niko Lusiani.
Some experts are also concerned over the practicalities of donating shots like Pfizer’s to lower income countries, which mayThe English county of Cornwall, home to nearly 600,000 people and the location of the G-7 Summit, “has administered more vaccinations than 22 African countries combined,” according to Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s head of economic and social justice.
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