The great global vaccine divide

Published: March 21, 2021, 4:30 p.m.

More than 300 Covid vaccine candidates are in development and more than 400m doses have been administered. But those people are overwhelmingly found in just a few of the world’s richest countries. As the Guardian’s international correspondent Michael Safi tells Anushka Asthana, this huge economic global divide means some are facing a wait of up to three years, if they can get a jab at all