The pandemic won’t end until there is global solidarity on vaccines

As Canadians savour a “return to normal” this summer, our decision makers seem largely oblivious to the fact that almost three-quarters of the world’s population has yet to receive even a single dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

According to “Our World in Data,” an online database maintained by researchers at the University of Oxford, only 1.1 per cent of people in low-income countries have received a vaccine dose.

Some of the poorest nations and the percentage of their populations vaccinated with one dose as of July include: Haiti (