Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
Good morning to my fellow members. It's nice to see everyone again after two weeks off, which may have felt long to some and short to others.
Mr. Tabah said something in his opening statement that took me by surprise. He said that the vaccine landscape in 2021 was supply constrained, but that the situation had evolved in 2022 to become demand constrained.
I was taken aback when he said that, given the situation in a number of countries, including Haiti, where only 1% of the population is vaccinated. I'll come back to Haiti in a moment. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad, less than 1% of the population is fully vaccinated. In Papua New Guinea, just 2.8% of the population is vaccinated, and in Yemen, the number is 1.4%.
While we may be about to enter a phase where the landscape is demand constrained, the situation is very different in some African countries and in Haiti, for instance.
What, then, accounts for your rather optimistic view of the situation in 2022, Mr. Tabah?