Send coronavirus vaccines abroad now most vulnerable are inoculated, says Professor Andrew Pollard

Countries like the UK which have vaccinated the vast majority of their vulnerable population against the coronavirus should rethink their priorities and send available doses to other parts of the world, a vaccination expert said. Professor Andrew Pollard, head of the Oxford University vaccine group, told the BBC that around 30,000 people worldwide would die from Covid-19 today, with the total by the end of the month set to be “just shy of a million deaths”. “History will not look kindly on us if a million people die this month and we haven’t acted,” he said. “Countries that have now vaccinated the vast majority of the vulnerable need to be rethinking priorities. We are in a very joined up global community and just can’t stand by and see that level of catastrophe happen.”