Africa Business Radio

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for an immediate airlift of unused COVID jabs to countries in the global south.Brown, an adviser to the World Health Organization is pressing the leaders of Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States to hold an emergency summit to agree on the airlift ahead of the G20 meeting later this month.He says an airlift of 240 million doses this month could save 100,000 lives.He says It would be the first part of a plan to transfer a billion vaccine doses from rich countries to lower-income countries over several months.