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Glendy Rivero, the first doctor to receive the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, at the Victorino Santaella hospital, in Los Teques, Miranda state, Venezuela, 18 February 2021

Macron: Send 4-5% of vaccines to poorer nations

France's president says failure to share vaccines more evenly is deepening global inequality.

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    Video caption: Russia hopes its Sputnik V vaccine can help the world beat Covid 19

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  11. Macron: Europe should share vaccines with Africa

    A recipient prepares to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital at the commencement of the vaccination programme on February 17, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa
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    Image caption: South Africa started giving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Wednesday

    France's President Emmanuel Macron has said Europe and the US should urgently allocate 3% to 5% of their coronavirus vaccine supplies to developing countries where vaccination campaigns have scarcely begun.

    In an interview with the UK-based Financial Times newspaper ahead of Friday's video conference between G7 leaders, he said some African nations were having to buy Western vaccines at over twice the price paid by the European Union.

    He said that "transferring 3% to 5% of the vaccines we have in stock to Africa” would not affect domestic inoculation programmes.

    “It’s in the interest of the French and the Europeans. Today I have more than 10m of our fellow citizens who have families on the other side of the Mediterranean,” he was quoted as saying.

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