Covid: Boris Johnson urged to share vaccines with poorer nationson March 28, 2021 at 1:30 am

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A group of charities is calling on Boris Johnson to begin donating vaccines through the Covax scheme.

Sage scientist Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, said the UK will still have contractual access to at least 100 million surplus doses once the entire population is vaccinated, which he said “won’t be of use in the UK”.

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