The fight to end the spread of COVID-19 is now entering its third year. While we’re all exhausted by its successive waves — and while tempers are fraying, as we have reported before — the pandemic is not going anywhere. Instead, Italians are now receiving their third vaccine dose — and there is talk of more to come.

But what about in the rest of the world? What is Italy doing to help other countries? In September 2021, on delivering 15 million vaccine doses to Iraq, Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi had big words: “We must make sure that vaccines are more available to poorer countries. Our priority must be to ensure that we all overcome the current pandemic together. We must vaccinate the world — and do it fast.”