UK accused of ‘hoarding’ vaccines and leaving countries ‘fighting for scraps’

World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has repeatedly warned against so-called “vaccine nationalism”, saying “no-one is safe until everyone is safe”.

A vial of doses of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine (Gareth Fuller/PA)

The UK is “hoarding” Covid-19 vaccines in an approach described by a campaign group as demonstrating “obscene injustice”.

The Global Justice Now organisation said the UK’s unused doses of vaccine could cover the 10 least-vaccinated countries in the world, including Syria, Yemen and South Sudan.