The rich nations’ take on the world post-pandemic? ‘I’m all right, Jack’ | Kenan Malik

As the west begins to get the virus under control, gaping global inequalities are exposed

Rich countries have administered more doses of Covid vaccine than the size of their populations - an average of 105 doses per 100 people. In low-income countries, that figure is just two per 100 people. It is a disparity that is likely to define the post-pandemic world.

There has been much discussion about the inequalities that Covid has exposed both within nations and between them. Paradoxically, though, it is now that we are beginning to get the virus under control that inequalities may become most exposed.