Boris Johnson has a “moral duty” to immediately start matching each vaccine administered at home with a donated dose to poorer countries across the world, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said. Several Tory backbenchers joined the call, which puts further pressure on the prime minister to boost supplies given to developing nations facing a “desperate shortage” of jabs. Ministers have rightly committed to funding Covax, the international partnership supplying vaccines to developing countries, the group says. It urges the government to support an intellectual property waiver at the World Trade Organization that would ramp up vaccine manufacturing abroad. This funding has so far helped to provide vaccines to more than 120 countries and territories, including 38 across Africa.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2021 21:01 UTC