Thread by @lewis_goodall

We talk so much about the "vaccine race" in the West

But it's not the West we should be worried about.

Countries with <5% of pop fully vaccinated

DRC 🇨🇩: app 0%
Haiti🇭🇹: app 0%
Uganda 🇺🇬: 0.01%
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: 0.02%
Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬: 0.03%
Yemen🇾🇪: 0.03%
Chad🇹🇩: 0.04%

It goes on

South Sudan🇸🇸: 0.04%
Syria🇸🇾: 0.05%
G Bissau🇬🇼: 0.06%
Benin🇧🇯: 0.1%
CAR🇨🇫: 0.1%
Turkmenistan🇹🇲: 0.2%
Cameroon🇨🇲: 0.2%
Liberia🇱🇷: 0.2%
Sierra Leone🇸🇱: 0.2%
Bhutan🇧🇹: 0.2%
Tajikistan🇹🇯: 0.2%
Malawi🇲🇼: 0.2%
Niger🇳🇪: 0.3%
Mali 🇲🇼: 0.3%
Mauritania🇲🇷: 0.3%
Vietnam:🇻🇳0.3%

And on...

Zambia 🇿🇲: 0.4%
Sudan🇸🇩: 0.4%
Gambia🇬🇲: 0.5%
Somalia🇸🇴: 0.6%
Afghanistan🇦🇫: 0.6%
Nigeria🇳🇬: 0.7%
Djibouti🇩🇯: 0.9%
Lesotho🇱🇸: 0.9%
Mozambique🇲🇿: 1%
Iraq🇮🇶: 1%
Kenya🇰🇪: 1.1%
Honduras🇭🇳: 1.2%
Armenia🇦🇲: 1.2%
Ghana🇬🇭: 1.3%
Namibia🇳🇦: 1.4%
Egypt🇪🇬: 1.4%
Gabon🇬🇦: 1.5%

And still further

Senegal🇸🇳: 1.6%
Guatemala🇬🇹: 1.6%
Togo🇹🇬: 1.8%
Angola🇦🇴: 1.9%
Rwanda🇷🇼: 2%
Paraguay🇵🇾: 2%
Guinea🇬🇳: 2.1%
Eswatini🇸🇿: 2.4%
Nicaragua🇳🇮: 2.5%
Bangladesh🇧🇩: 2.6%
Iran🇮🇷: 2.7%
Myanmar🇲🇲: 2.8%
Uzbekistan🇺🇿: 3%
Pakistan🇵🇰: 3.1%
Georgia🇬🇪: 3.4%
South Africa🇿🇦: 3.6%

And...

Ukraine🇺🇦: 3.7%
Venezuela🇻🇪: 3.8%
Belarus🇧🇾: 3.9%
Jamaica🇯🇲: 4%
Nepal🇳🇵: 4%
Zimbabwe🇿🇼: 4.5%
Philippines🇵🇭: 4.6%
Comoros🇰🇲: 4.7%
Brunei🇧🇳: 4.8%
Botswana🇧🇼: 4.9%
Bosnia and H🇧🇦: 4.99%

Not until we get to Thailand🇹🇭- 76 countries in, do we breach the 5% barrier.

Africa average: 1.5%

It isn't only about an unequal distribution of doses or money but head of WHO said at the year we were facing a "catastrophic moral failure" as a result in global vaccine inequalities without action. Six months later- judge for yourself.

This will matter all the more as Delta, which has/is going to cause major disruption across the West reaches further afield. At least in West those countries are dealing with it with big % of population vaccinated. It won’t be so everywhere by a long shot.

President Kenyatta of Kenya pulling no punches with @KimberleyeLeo: "One of the things which has shown how unequal this world is has been the kind of vaccine nationalism that we've seen...they have surpluses but are still not ready to share them with the rest of the world."

Kenyatta: "We worked together when we were doing clinical trials, when we were doing research into vaccines and then all of a sudden we're unable to access those same vaccines...if we were given the IP we could manufacture in Kenya in the shortest possible time."

Kenyatta: "You can't on the one hand say well if you want to buy that's not available and then on the other side you say well we can't give you the intellectual property to protect your own people. It's got to be one or the other."