Doctors in Ireland and Africa are calling for the Irish Government to push for greater access to vaccines for Africa. They want Ireland to push the European Union to support a waiver on intellectual property rights which would allow developing countries to manufacture the vaccines.
In most African countries less than 10% of the population has been vaccinated because their governments cannot get access to the vaccines.
Dr Titus H Divala is an epidemiologist in Malawi where just 3% of the population is covered. He said Malawi is now facing into a fourth wave of Covid with the health system expected to come under pressure in late December or early January.