Former British prime minister Gordon Brown has accused rich countries of committing a "moral outrage" by stockpiling Covid-19 doses while poor countries are struggling to get supplies, Reuters reports.
Brown, who is a United Nations special envoy, called on US President Joe Biden and other Group of Seven leaders to urgently ship vaccines from warehouses in America and Europe to Africa.
Western countries are hoarding nearly 300 million shots while only 70m people in Africa have so far been vaccinated, Brown said in an opinion piece published in the Sunday Mirror newspaper, citing research by data firm Airfinity.
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