One Campaign protest ‘vaccine hoarding’

No, the virus has not mutated into people-sized blobs.

But campaigners have been dressed as Covid-19 to protest about the UK hoarding vaccines.

One of those outside Parliament on Monday, January 18,was Joshua Hinh, 26, of Vanston Place, Fulham.

He is an ambassador for the One Campaign, calling on Boris Johnson’s Government to speed up the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines the UK has promised to other countries.

Dressing up as Covid-19 viruses and doctors outside Big Ben, the activists were pictured as viruses attacking doctors.

They were publicising a petition with more than 120,000 signatures, urging the UK Government to do more in ending the pandemic across the world.

Joshua, a recent architecture graduate, said: “The British public agree that the UK must lead the way in ending the pandemic.

“Sharing doses with lower-income countries is key in achieving that.”

The stunt was accompanied by the publication of recent polling commissioned by ONE, which showed that 63 per cent of Brits would prefer the UK to share vaccines with developing countries rather than deliver more boosters at home, to prevent the spread of new variants.

Romilly Greenhill, director of ONE Against Poverty UK, said: “Fairness and justice are driving British attitudes to how we address global vaccine access, but the UK public clearly gets that ending the pandemic everywhere is in our interests, too.”