💰 A new billionaire has emerged every 26 hours since the pandemic began.
📈 According to @Oxfam, the world's richest people including @ElonMusk and @JeffBezos have seen their fortunes soar.
🌎 So what has COVID-19 meant for inequality?
⭕️ Here are 4 facts you need to know. 🧵
1️⃣ The rich got richer...
⭕️ The 10 wealthiest men earned $1.3bn a day during the pandemic.
They own more than the world's poorest 3.1bn people combined.
💰 The increase in @JeffBezos’ fortune alone could pay for everyone on earth to be safely vaccinated, says @Oxfam.
2️⃣ The poor became poorer...
🏚More than 160m people have been pushed into poverty. Inequality between nations is set to rise for the first time in a generation.
⭕️Yet wealthy countries are recovering faster from COVID-19 and output could return to pre-pandemic levels by 2023.
3️⃣ Poverty continues to kill…
⭕️ Inequality is contributing to the death of at least 21,300 people each day.
📊 That’s one person every four seconds.
🌽 Many are dying because of hunger. Others are lacking vital access to healthcare.
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4️⃣ And COVID-19 remains deadly...
🌎 People in developing countries are twice as likely to die from being infected.
📈 More than 75% in wealthy countries have been vaccinated.
💉 But only about 7% of people in low-income countries have received a vaccine dose.
⭕️ Health experts say Omicron's appearance highlights the need to share vaccines more fairly.
⚡️ Here's what it teaches us about vaccine equity. 👇
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⭕️ Read more about how the super rich got even richer during the pandemic, as millions were pushed into poverty 👇
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