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Britain's advance deals for Covid-19 vaccine 'undermine fair access' for the world
Global Justice Now says rich nations' 'vaccine nationalism' could leave poorer countries scrambling to help their citizens

GOVERNMENT deals with two US pharmaceutical companies to buy 90 million advance doses of potential coronavirus vaccines undermines fair global access to the drug, campaigners have said.

The two separate deals announced today for in-development vaccines from Novavax (60 million doses) and Janssen (30m doses) were struck on a Britain-first basis.

Under the agreement with Janssen, the pharma subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, the government can purchase 22 million more doses of the vaccine if required.

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