OXFORD, England, July 28 (Reuters) - British Foreign
Secretary Dominic Raab warned that the world would not be
vaccinated until 2024 under current rates and urged other
countries to join Britain in donating shots to poorer nations to
bring that date forward to the middle of next year.
Raab told Reuters he hoped other countries would step up to
the plate after Britain started distributing the first tranche
of the 100 million shots it plans to give away.
"We know on the current trajectory the world will only be
adequately vaccinated at 2024, at the end," he told Reuters at
the Oxford Biomedica factory. "We want to get that date back to
the middle of next year and that will make a massive difference
to those countries affected."
(Reporting by Andrew MacAskill; writing by Kate Holton; editing
by David Milliken)
Oxford Biomedica (OXB)