18 May 2020 - A former top bureaucrat has warned the international race to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus could pit nations against each other if politicians bow to domestic pressures to put their own citizens at the front of the queue for a jab.

Jane Halton, a former secretary of the health and finance departments who now chairs the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation and sits on the board of the COVID-19 Coordination Commission, said "vaccine nationalism" was a threat to the global cooperation needed to fight the pandemic.

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