Letters to the Editor: Avoid divide of rich and poor over vaccine

A woman eyes a syringe as she prepares to be inoculated with a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the Magdalena Contreras area of Mexico City. As Mexico approaches 200,000 in officially test-confirmed deaths from COVID-19, the real death toll is probably higher due to the country's extremely low rate of testing. Picture:AP Photo/Marco Ugarte

The global community should avoid a rich-poor divide between the Western world and countries of the Global South, in how coronavirus vaccines are distributed.

Right now, more than 30 countries worldwide haven’t injected a single person, while roughly three-quarters of all doses have gone to people in just 10 countries.