Mekonnen Mesghena, head of migration and diversity at the Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, says: "What this pandemic demonstrates, once again, is the global epidemic of injustice that we never manage to bring under control.” 

 

 

Frank Ulrich Montgomery is president of the World Medical Association. He thinks: „The vaccine was developed in record time. Supply chain bottlenecks are perfectly normal. A vaccine for hundreds of millions of people isn’t something you just pluck from thin air.“ 

 

Alexandra von Nahmen heads DW’s studio in Brussels. She says: "With the EU scrambling to vaccinate it's own citizens and the US absent as a global player, China and Russia are winning the vaccine diplomacy race.“