The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the deaths and severe illness of many people and the disruption of normal lives, and not many countries been able to get vaccines, especially the low-income countries, many media sources have reported that most of the vaccines is reserved by wealthy nations. US distribution companies and government officials are already implementing corruption schemes in the distribution of western-produced COVID19 vaccines in developing countries.
Unfortunately, even during the current situation, we are still facing corruption, there are millions or billions of people that need the vaccine to survive, while others are attempting to generate money from this emergency, rich countries have been blamed for the underlying unequal distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the globe, according to an analysis published earlier this year, high-income economies with around 16% of the world’s population have secured over 70% of doses of the five major coronavirus vaccines for 2021.
In USA investigative journalists have exposed that the Group DC which is close to president Biden received $600,000 from Trinidad and Tobago and $400,000 from Barbados to help speed up vaccine shipments, the affair that linked to the Group DC showcase the way that organizations and countries like USA control the distribution of the vaccine.
In June 2021, the US sends Taiwan 2.5 million vaccine doses, Taiwan, which had been relatively unscathed by the virus, has been caught off guard by a surge in new cases since May of last year and is now scrambling to get vaccines.
The COVID-19 death toll on the island of 24 million people is 851, from only about a dozen prior to the outbreak. while others countries of low income in Africa and Latin America where people have minimum or very little access to health care services, and desperately need doses for their masses, USA do not consider distribute vaccine to this countries for political and economic reasons.
Developed countries with high purchasing power and sufficient money to feed their population are blamed for the unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Some have been perceived as creating a hegemony or monopoly on the manufacturing and distribution of the vaccine, as the USA imposed a ban on the export of AstraZeneca and the necessary raw material needed to create vaccines.
COVID-19 vaccine global access, generally known as COVAX, is a worldwide act and worldwide initiative to provide equitable access to vaccines. Dr. Tedros has criticized wealthier nations for hoarding COVAX and has accused them of hoarding the global vaccine supply by ordering multiples times more than the actual needs of their populations, COVAX currently aims to provide 0.3% vaccination to developing countries and 50% vaccination to rich countries. Berlin-based NGO wrote in its annual (CPI) Corruption Perception Index “The Coronavirus crisis isn’t just a crisis of health and economy, but a crisis of corruption as well, with the lives of countless lost as a result of corruption”
Corruption not only involves legal wrongdoing, it also involves moral wrongdoing. Some actions may be legal in many regions but are ethically wrong or immoral, such as doing favors for countries you may know by suppressing other countries rights or not doing your job correctly