Global officials urge rich countries to donate excess COVID-19 vaccines, money to help end pandemic
Geneva, Switzerland/New York City, USReuters Top UN, financial and vaccine officials on Thursday urged rich countries to donate excess COVID-19 vaccine doses to a program supplying lower income countries in a bid to end the pandemic and get the global economy back on track. At an event organised by the GAVI Vaccine Alliance to boost […]
COVAX expects full vaccine supplies from India’s Serum in May, says UNICEF
New Delhi, IndiaReuters A World Health Organization-backed program to supply coronavirus vaccines to poorer countries expects that the Serum Institute of India will resume full deliveries of the AstraZeneca shot to it in May, UNICEF said on Saturday. “Deliveries of SII/AZ vaccine are expected to begin fully again by May, with catch-up deliveries to reach […]
COVAX aims to supply 1.8 billion COVID vaccine doses to poor in ’21, warns of uncertainties
London, UKReuters The COVAX vaccine sharing platform designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 shots said on Thursday it aimed to deliver 1.8 billion doses to poorer countries in 2021 and hoped to fulfil supply deals for wealthier ones in the second half of the year. But COVAX, which is co-led by the GAVI vaccine […]
UN chief: time for national plans to help fund global COVID-19 vaccine effort
New York, US/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday it is time for countries to start using money from their national COVID-19 response to help fund a global vaccine plan as the World Bank warned that “broad, rapid and affordable access” to those doses will be at the core of a resilient global […]