The talk about Namibia (absolutely beautiful country) has reminded me of a few things I'm not sure lots of people in the UK think about. Not just in relation to Namibia (which isn't a poor or corrupt country but which is certainly poorer than European countries) but to southern Africa in general.
There is a lot of talk about donating vaccines to the developing world (which is good). But it doesn't end there. They need needles, jabbers, logistic help to roll everything out, preferably a single jab vaccine as lots of people have to travel big distances to get jabbed. They do not need to feel that the vaccines they are given are second rate - when Denmark, having decided AZ wasn't good enough for them and got their Pfizer doses and donated all their AZ doses to Kenya I'm sure they meant well. But I know that really made people in southern Africa worry there was something wrong with AZ and increased vaccine hesitancy. And when politicians call it a quasi effective vaccine for their own domestic political agenda I'm not sure they realise the world is listening and that this kind of talk costs lives.
It isn't just people and the economy suffering in those countries either - there is a lot of concern that the ability to conserve wildlife is being seriously hampered because of the collapse in tourism (most tourists are from UK, US, Europe and SA). Numbers vary wildly about what has happened to poaching numbers during the pandemic but locals think they have increased but that goods are either being stockpiled to sell when travel is easier or used for local consumption. Certainly, a lot of game parks are struggling to pay anti poachers, fix fences, pay staff etc. And the WHO (I'm not a fan but think they have a point here) is concerned that increased consumption of wild meat from poaching carries a risk of virus spread from animals to humans which we can all do without.
Completely agree with @wintertravel1980 that you need to look at excess deaths (and remember this is always what Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance said at those early press conferences where they used to have those awful "league table" graphs showing the cases and deaths in different European countries). Otherwise you aren't comparing like for like. Even countries which under report (eg South Africa) are watching excess deaths. It isn't that they are under reporting for some sinister reason but they have limited tests, a lot of people who die in rural places simply get buried with no test, no autopsy.
@MarshaBradyo - completely agree re Dominic Cummings. If he has always known the PM is so useless and awful why on earth did he help get him elected??? If that is true it reflects rather badly on DC.