At Davos, the global elite should ensure the whole world can access Covid vaccines | Larry Elliott

We risk creating healthcare apartheid, where the virus still rages in poorer nations. Ultimately, this will harm all of us

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In different times, the president of South Africa would have been one of the world leaders in Switzerland this week for the annual gathering of the global elite in Davos. But the January talkfest has been online-only, and covered less avidly than usual by the media.

That's a pity in Cyril Ramaphosa's case because of what he had to say about the dangers of vaccine nationalism": that while the leaders of the world's richest countries keep insisting that Covid-19 is a global virus that respects no borders, they are simultaneously hogging vaccines for their own use.