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Has the world failed to share vaccines?

As new variants emerge there's criticism of how vaccines are being distributed across the world

As a new Covid variant causes concern about the effectiveness and global equity of vaccine programmes, is the project to deliver vaccines to the Global South working?

New Statesman reporter Harry Clarke-Ezzidio interviews Aurélia Nguyen, the managing director of Covax, an organisation set up to ensure fair access to Covid vaccines. 

They discuss criticism of the current vaccination programme, whether richer countries are hoarding vaccines, and why the world needs to cooperate to defeat the pandemic.

If you have a You Ask Us question for the international team, email podcasts@newstatesman.co.uk.

Further reading:

International coronavirus vaccine tracker: how many people have been vaccinated?

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