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The American Wall Street Journal addressed the issue of developing countries ’delay in obtaining vaccines and vaccinating their people against the emerging corona virus, warning that this may lead to prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic the world is witnessing, and a report published by the newspaper on its website, today, Wednesday , That in the midst of the world vaccination race against Covid-19, developing countries are seriously delaying as mutated strains of the virus make it difficult for them to catch the race, indicating that this situation could lead to at least another year of humanitarian and economic tragedy for poor countries.

The report pointed out that the United States has administered vaccine doses to about 15% of its population so far, while Europe has reached a rate of approximately 5%. But in South America, only 1.8% of the continent's population had received the vaccine as of this week, while Asia reached 1.5% and Africa 0.1%, according to data from the "Our World in Data" project, which is based on The University of Oxford is home.

The World Health Organization recently said that nearly 130 countries have not yet administered a single dose, while only two countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Seychelles and Mauritius, have begun vaccinating a large proportion of frontline workers, and it is likely that other countries will start rolling out the doses within The coming days, according to the report, and the newspaper’s report considered that the supply of vaccines to poor countries, which is characterized by severe shortages, faces the risk of further shrinking due to the emergence of new strains of the virus, including those in South Africa and Brazil, which seem to make some of the vaccines obtained less effectiveness.

Experts say that it is unlikely that large parts of Africa and some countries in Latin America and Asia will cover most of their population before 2023 or 2024, and the report stated, "All this means that years may pass before life returns to normal in poor countries, which have witnessed a resurgence. More than 100 million people went into extreme poverty last year and lacked the resources to unleash government spending similar to the rich countries.

He pointed out that some emerging market countries that were able to conduct domestic stimulus last year are taking their resources that would enable them to continue to run out in light of the pandemic.