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The vaccine must be distributed equally, at home and abroad
Throughout the pandemic, the government has proved that its priority is not to keep people safe but to protect the interests of the few. When it comes to the vaccine, they must abandon this unequal approach, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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The vaccine must be distributed equally, at home and abroad.
Britain currently has the highest coronavirus death rate in the world. For 10 days in a row, we have tragically lost over 1,000 people a day to the disease, with this figure hitting 1,820 last week.
Britain has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, and each of these countries have at least double the population of the UK. Indeed, in one day Britain has recorded more deaths than the total Covid-19 fatalities in Taiwan, New Zealand, Thailand and Australia put together, despite these countries having a combined population nearly twice the UK’s.
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