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COVAX Marks 100 Countries Vaccine Deliveries Milestone

  • Tuvalu is the second country in the Pacific region to receive full vaccines to cover 20 percent of the population under the COVAX Facility.

    Tuvalu is the second country in the Pacific region to receive full vaccines to cover 20 percent of the population under the COVAX Facility. | Photo: Twitter/ @UNICEFPacific

Published 9 April 2021
Opinion

COVAX was designed as a means to guarantee a more equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, yet this goal remains in jeopardy as the richest countries carry out a vaccine hoard. 
 

The COVAX mechanism has reached over 100 economies in the past six weeks and delivered 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday.

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COVAX was designed as a means to guarantee a more equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, yet this goal remains in jeopardy as the wealthiest countries carry out a vaccine hoard.

On April 7, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced that "the vast majority of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered have been in a few wealthy countries or those producing vaccines. Such inequities are immoral and dangerous for our health, our economies, and our societies."

The WHO expects to deliver 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 alone to immunize at least 20 percent of participant countries' populations.

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