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COVAX doses

Well-vaccinated countries should prioritise COVAX over booster shots: WHO's Tedros

Published 01 Sep, 2021 08:32pm

We do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated, WHO says

Updated 05 Aug, 2021 05:32pm

"The WHO (World Health Organisation) yesterday at a meeting informed us that the actual shipments were less than 13 million." he said. "That's 10% percent of what we were told we would get."

Published 29 Jul, 2021 06:40pm

Forty percent (1.6 billion) of the four billion shots have been administered in China. India (451 million) and the United States (343 million) make up the trio of countries that have administered the most jabs

Published 12 Jul, 2021 08:57pm

"The Delta variant is ripping around the world at a scorching pace, driving a new spike in COVID-19 cases and death," Tedros said.
"It has to be based on the science and the data, not on individual companies declaring that their vaccines need to be administered as a booster dose," she said.

Updated 10 Jul, 2021 06:22pm

The shipment, delivered via the COVAX sharing facility, is part of the 80 million vaccine doses that President Joe Biden committed from US vaccine supplies to support global needs.

Updated 09 Jul, 2021 05:08pm

A second shipment of vaccines donated by the United States through the COVAX global sharing program will bring the total to 3.3 million doses, UNICEF said.
"These vaccines arrive at a critical time for Afghanistan as the country faces a difficult surge in COVID-19 infections," said UNICEF.

Published 17 Mar, 2021 09:10pm

The South Asian nation of 220 million people launched COVID-19 vaccinations for the public on March 10, starting with older people. Health workers started receiving shots in early February.
"These 500,000 doses will ensure smooth continuation of our vaccine drive, currently under way for senior citizens," Sultan said.
Pakistan is expecting to get GAVI's first batch of 2.8 million doses of AstraZeneca sometime later this month, officials said.

Published 08 Mar, 2021 07:18pm

The Southeast Asian nation has reported one of the worst COVID-19 caseloads in Asia. It launched a vaccination drive in January, aiming to inoculate some 181 million people within a year.
Indonesia will get about 11.7 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine through COVAX, which will come in stages through May, Minister Retno Marsudi said.

Published 04 Mar, 2021 07:27pm

The country hopes to get a total of 4.58 million doses of AstraZeneca shots via COVAX by May, and the newly arrived 487,200 doses are the initial shipment.
"With every dose that we will administer, we are inching towards a safer recovery from this pandemic," Health Secretary Francisco Duque said in a statement.

Published 04 Mar, 2021 07:03pm

Sudan says it expects to receive the remainder of a total 3.4 million doses through COVAX, a vaccine-sharing programme co-led by the World Health Organization, in the second quarter of this year.
"This is an essential part of our battle against coronavirus," Health Minister Omer Elnageib said.

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