Of the 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine that the EU has pledged to deliver to low- and middle-income countries by mid-2022, 99.6 million have been delivered or will be delivered this week to African countries, the European Commission and the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, which is chaired by former European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, announced on Monday 22 November.
These are, for the first time, doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, which was initially thought to require...