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This chapter focuses on the cosmopolitanism of the COVID-19 vaccine as a promising approach to collectively curb the borderless COVID-19 pandemic and promote shared humanity. Since the end of 2019 till 2021, the world experienced an exponential spread of COVID-19 virus that claimed many lives irrespective of the race, age, gender of people. In response to combat the pandemic, the world has been unanimously united around cosmopolitan health regulations and political determinants of health as concerted efforts towards saving lives. These include, the WHO’s declaration on the race for COVID-19 vaccine and recommendation for human solidarity for the needy, social distancing between people of at least one metre, washing hands with soap or alcohol-based sanitizers, wearing of masks in public, quarantining infected people. Countries also enforced strict measures that restricted human mobility such as closures of nation-state borders and imposition of curfews. The chapter argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded the world that we are all one and all lives matter. Thus, divisions based on race, gender, sex etc. should not stand in the way of finding collective solutions to problems which afflict humanity today and possibly going into the future. Through desktop research and content analysis, the study extensively reviews the notion of cosmopolitanism, politics of vaccine, and COVID-19 pandemic to understand the necessity of a cosmopolitan approach to vaccine to combat the pandemic and promote collective and shared humanity. It was found that the world was interconnected by concerted cosmopolitan regulations to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Using vaccine cosmopolitanism constitutes a promising approach to save live globally irrespective of physical and symbolic borders separating humanities. It is necessary to include countries from the Global South in both production and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. People should not be reminded that they are all the same because a disaster is raging and consuming them like a wild conflagration, but this should be always the norm/standard- cosmopolitanism and a shared humanity.

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Cosmopolitanism and the Borderless COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards a Collective and Shared Humanity Across the Global North and South

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    2025年

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  • Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka

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This chapter focuses on the cosmopolitanism of the COVID-19 vaccine as a promising approach to collectively curb the borderless COVID-19 pandemic and promote shared humanity. Since the end of 2019 till 2021, the world experienced an exponential spread of COVID-19 virus that claimed many lives irrespective of the race, age, gender of people. In response to combat the pandemic, the world has been unanimously united around cosmopolitan health regulations and political determinants of health as concerted efforts towards saving lives. These include, the WHO’s declaration on the race for COVID-19 vaccine and recommendation for human solidarity for the needy, social distancing between people of at least one metre, washing hands with soap or alcohol-based sanitizers, wearing of masks in public, quarantining infected people. Countries also enforced strict measures that restricted human mobility such as closures of nation-state borders and imposition of curfews. The chapter argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded the world that we are all one and all lives matter. Thus, divisions based on race, gender, sex etc. should not stand in the way of finding collective solutions to problems which afflict humanity today and possibly going into the future. Through desktop research and content analysis, the study extensively reviews the notion of cosmopolitanism, politics of vaccine, and COVID-19 pandemic to understand the necessity of a cosmopolitan approach to vaccine to combat the pandemic and promote collective and shared humanity. It was found that the world was interconnected by concerted cosmopolitan regulations to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Using vaccine cosmopolitanism constitutes a promising approach to save live globally irrespective of physical and symbolic borders separating humanities. It is necessary to include countries from the Global South in both production and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. People should not be reminded that they are all the same because a disaster is raging and consuming them like a wild conflagration, but this should be always the norm/standard- cosmopolitanism and a shared humanity.