World's poor need action, not Covid 'vaccine nationalism', say experts

Nations outbidding each other creates an immoral race towards the abyss'

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Pharmaceutical companies should do more to transfer vaccine technology to prevent the poorest countries falling behind in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, according to an expert.

The warning came from Dag-Inge Ulstein, the co-chair of the global council trying to speed up access to Covid vaccines for the world's poor, known as the Act (Access to Covid-19 Tools) Accelerator. Ulstein, Norway's international development minister, oversees the drive to ensure vaccines reach the poor - the Covax programme.