Offering children Covid jabs ‘morally wrong’ in global context – Oxford expert

The World Health Organisation said some countries were only just beginning to vaccinate those at highest risk from Covid-19 (Yui Mok/PA)

It is “morally wrong” to offer Covid-19 jabs to children in wealthy countries when high-risk groups in poorer nations remain unvaccinated, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said.

Professor Andrew Pollard, who helped develop the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab, said global vaccine inequity was “plain to see”.