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Covid-19 vaccines: ethical, legal and practical considerations

Amendment No. 2 | Doc. 15212 | 25 January 2021

Signatories:
Mr Stefan SCHENNACH, Austria, SOC ; Ms Sibel ARSLAN, Switzerland, SOC ; Ms Edite ESTRELA, Portugal, SOC ; Mr Jean-Pierre GRIN, Switzerland, ALDE ; Mr Vladimir KRUGLYI, Russian Federation, NR ; Baroness Doreen MASSEY, United Kingdom, SOC
Origin
2021 - First part-session
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 7.2.5, insert the following paragraph:

“ensure that every country is able to vaccinate their health-care workers and vulnerable groups before vaccination is rolled out to non-risk groups, and thus consider donating vaccine doses or accept that priority be given to countries which have not yet been able to do so, bearing in mind that a fair and equitable global allocation of vaccine doses is the most efficient way of beating the pandemic and reducing the associated socio-economic burdens;“

Explanatory note

A failure of global solidarity will not only cost thousands - possibly millions - of lives, it will also put unnecessary strain on the global economy.