Coronavirus: Taxpayer funded vaccine may be given to poor countries before Brits
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dailystar.co.ukA Covid-19 vaccine may be given to poor countries before Brits despite it being paid for by UK taxpayers. We may not be at the front of the queue for the protection being worked on by a team at Oxford University.
It is hoped some doses will be available as early as September. But the coronavirus vaccine could be prioritised for struggling “low-income countries”.
Experts at Oxford University’s Jenner Institute are receiving UK government funding worth £2.2million to make it. But team leader Prof Sarah Gilbert said: “There are discussions going on about fair access to vaccines at a global level." And a spokeswoman for the research team told the Daily Star that the vaccine could be prioritised for struggling “low-income countries” before the
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