'The speed with which the world gets vaccinated in 2022 is critical to avoid more lost ground in contexts where progress is needed the most.'
Global Dashboard of Vaccine Equity
Lamenting numerous"lost opportunities," the UNDP found that"if low-income countries had the same vaccination rate as high-income countries in September last year ,, which could have been used to address other pressing development challenges—education, healthcare, [and] energy for all, for example." "The speed with which the world gets vaccinated in 2022 is critical to avoid more lost ground in contexts where progress is needed the most," the agency wrote."As many as 19 million people need to be inoculated each week in low-income countries, which represents an increase by over 800% compared to current rates."