{"id":32608,"date":"2021-05-30T18:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T09:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/30\/vaccine-inequality-exposed-by-dire-situation-in-worlds-poorest-nations"},"modified":"2021-05-30T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T09:15:50","slug":"vaccine-inequality-exposed-by-dire-situation-in-worlds-poorest-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32608","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine inequality exposed by dire situation in world\u2019s poorest nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: the failings of the Covax programme, logistical issues and governments\u2019 own inadequacies are making a bad situation worse<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only 1% of the 1.3 billion vaccines injected around the world have been administered in Africa \u2013 and that comparative percentage has been declining in recent weeks. It is a stark figure that underlines just how serious a problem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/jan\/18\/vaccine-inequity-puts-world-on-brink-of-catastrophic-moral-failure-says-who-chief-video\" title=\"\">global vaccine inequity<\/a> has become. But the answer for the developing world is not as simple as delivering more vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>From Africa to Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean, the same issues have been replicated. On top of finding enough doses, there have been logistical difficulties with delivery, problems over healthcare infrastructure and, in some countries, public hesitancy towards vaccines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/30\/vaccine-inequality-exposed-by-dire-situation-in-worlds-poorest-nations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: the failings of the Covax programme, logistical issues and governments\u2019 own inadequacies are making a bad situation worseCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOnly 1% of the 1.3 billion vaccines injected around the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,1066,62,241,532,565,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-nepal","category-south-africa","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32609,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32608\/revisions\/32609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}