Ensuring global COVID-19 vaccine access seen worth billions to rich nations
SONIA ELKS RICH nations stand to lose hundreds of billions of dollars in economic output over the next five years if poorer countries do not get equal access to COVID-19 vaccines, a report said on Thursday as concerns grow about "vaccine nationalism". As the World Health Organisation (WHO) seeks to plug funding gaps in its ACT Accelerator programme for global COVID-19 treatments, researchers said their findings showed there was a financial - as well as a moral - case for ensuring equal access. "Governments are increasingly focusing on investments that can help their own economies to rebound," said Hassan Damluji,…