Africa’s COVID-19 envoy blasts EU, COVAX over vaccine crisis
3 years, 5 months ago

Africa’s COVID-19 envoy blasts EU, COVAX over vaccine crisis

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The African Union special envoy tasked with leading efforts to procure COVID-19 vaccines for the continent is blasting Europe as Africa struggles amid a crushing third surge of infections, saying Thursday that “not one dose, not one vial, has left a European factory for Africa.” Strive Masiyiwa also took aim at the global effort meant to distribute vaccines to low- and middle-income countries, accusing COVAX of withholding crucial information including that key donors hadn’t met funding pledges. We as Africans are disappointed.” The criticism revealed African leaders’ sheer exasperation at the world’s dramatic vaccine divide, with Masiyiwa describing vaccinated, unmasked Europeans attending football matches while just 1% of Africans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The African continent has had 5.5 million confirmed COVID-19 infections and has seen a “remarkable” 23% increase in deaths over the past week, the Africa CDC director said. Without mentioning the EU issue, COVAX in a statement on Thursday warned against turning away people “protected by a subset of WHO-approved vaccines,” saying it would “effectively create a two-tier system, further widening the global vaccine divide.” Some countries engage in so-called vaccine diplomacy and those bilateral donations are welcome, Masiyiwa said, but they’re not enough to “move the needle.” ___ Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed.

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Macron and African leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities
6 months ago

Macron and African leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities

Associated Press  

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron joined several African leaders on Thursday to kick off a planned $1 billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines in Africa, after the coronavirus pandemic exposed gaping inequalities in access to them. Many African leaders and advocacy groups say Africa was unfairly locked out of access to COVID-19 treatment tools, vaccines and testing …

African and European leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities
6 months ago

African and European leaders push for vaccines for Africa after COVID-19 exposed inequalities

LA Times  

European and African leaders gather at the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator conference in Paris on June 20, 2024. French President Emmanuel Macron joined several African leaders Thursday to kick off a planned $1-billion project to accelerate the rollout of vaccines in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaping inequalities in access to them. Many African leaders and advocacy groups say …

World leaders launch programme to boost vaccine production in Africa
6 months ago

World leaders launch programme to boost vaccine production in Africa

Al Jazeera  

Initiative announced in Paris will incentivise and offset start-up costs for vaccine manufacturing in the continent. French President Emmanuel Macron has joined several African leaders to kick off a planned $1.1bn project to accelerate vaccine production in Africa, after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inequalities in access to inoculation. African Union Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat welcomed the initiative, saying that …

EU countries destroyed €4 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines, reveals research
1 year ago

EU countries destroyed €4 billion worth of Covid-19 vaccines, reveals research

Firstpost  

Governments, including the EU’s second-most populous country France, have been reluctant to reveal the scale of the waste, but it is certain that most EU nations have resorted to wasting doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, once a much sought after commodity Nearly 215 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries at the height of the pandemic have since …

COVID vaccination rates have dropped 50% in Africa, WHO says
2 years, 2 months ago

COVID vaccination rates have dropped 50% in Africa, WHO says

LA Times  

The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses given in Africa has dropped by more than 50% over the last three months, the World Health Organization said Thursday, even though less than a quarter of all Africans have been vaccinated. Despite increased availability of vaccines on the continent, Africa still lags far behind the global average, with only 24% of the population …

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic
2 years, 3 months ago

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic

Live Mint  

Global vaccine alliance GAVI has set up financial instruments that will allow the group to immediately access pledged donor funding if it needs to buy vaccines for future pandemics, Chief Executive Seth Berkley told Reuters. Berkley said that in 2020 and 2021, GAVI was limited in its ability to buy COVID-19 vaccines because even though donors had committed $2.4 billion, …

In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID-19
2 years, 4 months ago

In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID-19

The Hindu  

Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning. Yet while monkeypox is much harder to spread than COVID-19, experts warn that if …

COVID-19 changing, not over yet; tough to analyse future emerging variants: WHO
2 years, 5 months ago

COVID-19 changing, not over yet; tough to analyse future emerging variants: WHO

India TV News  

Highlights COVID19, driven by BA.4 and BA.5, cases are on the rise in 110 countries, the WHO said This has caused the overall global cases to increase by 20 per cent, it said Health workers and older people in lower-income countries remain unvaccinated, the WHO expressed COVID-19 pandemic is changing, but is not over yet, the World Health Organisation said …

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
2 years, 6 months ago

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation said it's creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. WHO's Europe director, Hans Kluge, said on June 15 he was concerned by the scramble by some rich countries to buy more vaccines without talk of buying supplies for Africa. Mr. Kluge urged governments "to approach …

Biden administration lays out its plan for Covid-19 vaccinations for children under 5
2 years, 6 months ago

Biden administration lays out its plan for Covid-19 vaccinations for children under 5

CNN  

CNN — The White House has announced a highly anticipated Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan for children under 5. The administration “has made 10 million vaccine doses available for states, Tribes, territories, community health centers, federal pharmacy partners, and others to pre-order,” according to a White House fact sheet shared with CNN Wednesday. “Our experience is that the longer the ordering …

Adar Poonawalla’s Pitch for Pandemic Treaty at Davos, Says Might Have to Destroy Covid Jab Doses
2 years, 7 months ago

Adar Poonawalla’s Pitch for Pandemic Treaty at Davos, Says Might Have to Destroy Covid Jab Doses

News 18  

Serum Institute of India chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla, in an interview to Shereen Bhan of CNBC-TV18, on Monday said he is advocating a global pandemic treaty, and has proposed that there should be a framework for leaders to work with. Stressing that there is an “oversupply” of Covid-19 vaccines in the world, Poonawalla, on the sidelines of the World …

Biden marks COVID ‘tragic milestone’ in US at global summit
2 years, 7 months ago

Biden marks COVID ‘tragic milestone’ in US at global summit

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at a COVID-19 summit Thursday to reenergize a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus as he led the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America. He spoke solemnly of the once-unthinkable U.S. toll: “1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table.” The coronavirus has …

Africa's COVID vaccine production line in jeopardy
2 years, 7 months ago

Africa's COVID vaccine production line in jeopardy

The Hindu  

Trisha shakes her head when asked if she's vaccinated. 'A massive setback for Africa's plans' In the absence of orders or commitments, Aspen is considering the repurposing of two COVID-19 production lines for the manufacture of other products. "The continent would lose its only existing COVID vaccine manufacturing capacity," Nicolaou says. Africa's major public health body, the Africa Centers for …

Covid-19: 10 Crore Doses of SII's Covovax Approved for Exports by Govt Lab, Stock Rolled Out for Teens
2 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19: 10 Crore Doses of SII's Covovax Approved for Exports by Govt Lab, Stock Rolled Out for Teens

News 18  

The country’s apex laboratory has cleared more than 10 crore doses of Covovax, another Covid-19 vaccine by the Serum Institute of India, for exports even as India gears up to roll out the shots to inoculate teenagers, News18.com has learnt. According to government data, the Central Drugs Laboratory in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh has so far approved a little over 10 …

Up to 65% of Africans have had COVID, far more than thought
2 years, 8 months ago

Up to 65% of Africans have had COVID, far more than thought

Associated Press  

JOHANNESBURG — The World Health Organization said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more than those reported. In a new analysis released Thursday, the U.N. health agency reviewed 151 studies of COVID-19 in Africa based on blood samples taken …

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones despite U.N.-backed initiative
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones despite U.N.-backed initiative

LA Times  

A worker moves boxes carrying Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine at SK Bioscience Co. in Andong, South Korea, on Feb. 9. Novavax, the company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world, will miss a target for giving doses to a U.N.-backed effort to supply shots to poorer countries. The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as …

Rich Countries Getting New COVID Vaccine Before Poorer Ones
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich Countries Getting New COVID Vaccine Before Poorer Ones

Huff Post  

FILE - A worker moves boxes carrying Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine at SK Bioscience Co. in Andong, South Korea, on Feb. 9, 2022. via Associated Press NEW DELHI — The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed …

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic. The company, Novavax, got $388 million from one …

Rich countries getting new Novavax COVID-19 vaccine before poorer ones
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich countries getting new Novavax COVID-19 vaccine before poorer ones

LA Times  

The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the United Nations-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic. The investment guaranteed COVAX the “right of first refusal” to …

BRICS grouping should work together to support vaccine endeavours: Health Minister
2 years, 9 months ago

BRICS grouping should work together to support vaccine endeavours: Health Minister

The Hindu  

India, having one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturing industries that supplied vaccines to more than 150 countries and met 65-70% of the World Health Organisation’s vaccine requirements, is willing to offer its robust vaccine manufacturing industry for developing vaccines for BRICS, as well as the world,” Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday while launching the BRICS …

EU praises vaccine cooperation with Africa at summit
2 years, 10 months ago

EU praises vaccine cooperation with Africa at summit

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders on Thursday lauded the bloc’s vaccine cooperation with Africa in the fight against the coronavirus, but there was no sign they would move toward a temporary lifting of intellectual property rights protection for COVID-19 shots. “It is about the capacity of Africa to produce their own vaccines, to develop mRNA manufacturing capacity across Africa,” von …

Covid-19 | India Likely To Supply Covovax, Corbevax Vaccines To Quad Partners: Report
2 years, 10 months ago

Covid-19 | India Likely To Supply Covovax, Corbevax Vaccines To Quad Partners: Report

ABP News  

New Delhi: India on Friday conveyed to the Quad partners that New Delhi is open to supplying Covid-19 vaccines, including Covovax and Corbevax, manufactured in the country under the vaccine partnership. “As pandemic continues to impact us, we have undertaken collective efforts to address global health security, Quad vaccine initiative and our collective vaccine delivery. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne …

COVAX Cuts North Korea's Covid-19 Vaccine Allotment After No Deliveries Accepted
2 years, 10 months ago

COVAX Cuts North Korea's Covid-19 Vaccine Allotment After No Deliveries Accepted

News 18  

The COVAX global COVID-19 vaccine-sharing programme has scaled back the number of doses allocated for North Korea, international aid organisations said, as the country has so far failed to arrange for any shipments. A website dashboard maintained by the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, shows the number of doses earmarked for North Korea now stands at 1.54 million, down from …

Africa CDC director urges youths to boost COVID vaccinations
2 years, 10 months ago

Africa CDC director urges youths to boost COVID vaccinations

Associated Press  

ABUJA, Nigeria — Africa’s top health official is launching a campaign to enlist young people to encourage vaccinations, as just 11.3% of the continent’s 1.3 billion people are vaccinated against COVID-19. Youths will be encouraged “to play an active role” in ramping up inoculations across the continent where the vaccination rate is far below other regions in the world, Africa …

Africa CDC: Continent on course to vaccinate 70% this year
2 years, 10 months ago

Africa CDC: Continent on course to vaccinate 70% this year

Associated Press  

JOHANNESBURG — The African continent is on course to reach its target of vaccinating at least 70% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of 2022, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters on Thursday. The continental public health agency said it has been encouraged by a surge in vaccinations in countries like …

Africa CDC chief calls for COVID vaccines with longer shelf life
2 years, 11 months ago

Africa CDC chief calls for COVID vaccines with longer shelf life

Al Jazeera  

John Nkengasong says most of the millions of expired doses in Africa were donated by individual countries or via COVAX and arrived with ‘very short notice’. Africa’s top public health bodies have called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with a shelf life of three to six months so countries could plan their rollouts and avoid a situation where doses …

It is time for Africa to focus on getting vaccines in arms
2 years, 11 months ago

It is time for Africa to focus on getting vaccines in arms

Al Jazeera  

Rates of vaccination against COVID-19 are still disappointingly low in Africa, with just around 8 percent of the continent’s population fully vaccinated against the disease. Indeed, high-income countries have been hoarding vaccines, most recently for third “booster” doses, leaving low-income countries, including many in Africa, unable to access enough doses even for their most vulnerable populations and frontline health workers. …

Poorer nations reject over 100 million Covid shots as many close to expiry
2 years, 11 months ago

Poorer nations reject over 100 million Covid shots as many close to expiry

India Today  

Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their rapid expiry date, a UNICEF official said on Thursday. UNICEF's data on supplies and use of delivered vaccines show that 681 million shipped doses are currently stored in about 90 poorer nations, according to CARE, a charity, …

Poorer nations forced to dump close-to-expiry COVID vaccines
2 years, 11 months ago

Poorer nations forced to dump close-to-expiry COVID vaccines

Al Jazeera  

More than 100 million doses of COVID vaccines were rejected in December, says UNICEF official, while 681 million shipped doses are unused in about 90 countries. Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their approaching expiry date, a UNICEF official has said. UNICEF’s data on …

Gavi and Bharat Biotech discuss possible COVAX use of Covaxin
2 years, 11 months ago

Gavi and Bharat Biotech discuss possible COVAX use of Covaxin

Live Mint  

The Gavi vaccine alliance is in talks with India's Bharat Biotech over potential procurement of the company's Covaxin COVID-19 shot for the COVAX global vaccine distribution programme, a Gavi spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday. The World Health Organization in November gave Covaxin, India's first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, approval for emergency use. Gavi said it was also working with the Serum …

Govt allows export of 7 crore Covovax vaccine doses to Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand
2 years, 11 months ago

Govt allows export of 7 crore Covovax vaccine doses to Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand

India Today  

The Indian government has permitted the export of 7 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covovax’ produced by Serum Institute of India here to Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, official sources said on Wednesday. Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs at Serum Institute of India, Prakash Kumar Singh had submitted an application to the Drugs Controller General of India, seeking no objection …

Too many COVID-19 vaccine doses are being wasted
2 years, 11 months ago

Too many COVID-19 vaccine doses are being wasted

Al Jazeera  

Since the Omicron variant of COVID-19 was detected, the stark global inequities that have characterised this pandemic have once again come to the forefront. Almost one year after vaccine rollout began, donations of COVID-19 vaccine doses by wealthy countries that no longer need them are getting ramped up. Malawi and South Sudan have also had to destroy expired COVID-19 vaccine …

Covovax Approval to Strengthen Immunization Efforts in India, Lower, Middle Income Countries: SII
2 years, 11 months ago

Covovax Approval to Strengthen Immunization Efforts in India, Lower, Middle Income Countries: SII

News 18  

Vaccine major Serum Institute of India on Tuesday said the approval for the COVID-19 vaccine 'Covovax' would strengthen immunization initiatives across India and various lower and middle income countries across the world. He was responding to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's announcement that the Central Drug Authority, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, has approved the SII's vaccine Covovax for …

EU approves 5th COVID-19 vaccine, by Novavax
3 years ago

EU approves 5th COVID-19 vaccine, by Novavax

LA Times  

The EU’s drug regulator, European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, concluded that the vaccine is safe and effective. The European Union’s executive branch on Monday authorized a fifth COVID-19 vaccine for use in the 27-nation bloc, giving the green light to the two-dose vaccine made by U.S. biotech company Novavax. “At a time where the Omicron variant is rapidly spreading, and …

Israel to donate 1 million vaccine doses to African countries
3 years ago

Israel to donate 1 million vaccine doses to African countries

India Today  

In the coming weeks, the State of Israel will distribute one million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to African countries through the International Covax Vaccine Distribution Mechanism. While Corona vaccines aren’t distributed across the entire world in order to defeat the pandemic, new Corona variants will develop in areas where vaccination rates are low," Israel foreign minister Yair Lapid said. Covax is …

WHO: Africa might miss 70% vaccination goal until late 2024
3 years ago

WHO: Africa might miss 70% vaccination goal until late 2024

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The African continent might not reach the target of vaccinating 70% of its 1.3 billion population against COVID-19 until the second half of 2024, a target many of the world’s richer countries have already met, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Health officials in South Africa, which first announced the variant, say early data indicate it causes …

Africa CDC: Nations might turn to COVID-19 vaccine mandates
3 years ago

Africa CDC: Nations might turn to COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — African governments might have to resort to COVID-19 vaccine mandates if their citizens don’t hurry to get the increasingly available doses, the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The warning by John Nkengasong to reporters that governments “will not have a choice” came as the flow of doses to Africa’s 54 …

WHO warns against rich nations hoarding jabs to fight Omicron
3 years ago

WHO warns against rich nations hoarding jabs to fight Omicron

Al Jazeera  

Key problem for international dose-sharing programme is wealthy countries donating COVID-19 vaccines with short shelf life, WHO says. The World Health Organization official has warned that wealthy countries may start hoarding COVID-19 vaccines again, threatening global supplies as they seek to shore up stocks to fight the new Omicron variant of coronavirus. The comments on Thursday by the agency’s vaccine …

Variants, boosters turn rich-poor vaccine gap into chasm
3 years ago

Variants, boosters turn rich-poor vaccine gap into chasm

Associated Press  

PARIS — The global initiative to share coronavirus vaccines fairly already scaled back its pledge to the world’s poor once. Now, to meet even that limited promise, COVAX would have to deliver more than a million doses every hour until the end of the year in some of the world’s most challenging places. COVAX’s new promise is for 1.4 billion …

Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic
3 years ago

Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic

Al Jazeera  

The United Kingdom and wealthy European nations are in a panic. For more than a year, the UK and European Union have blocked a proposal from South Africa and India to suspend intellectual property on COVID -19 technologies including vaccines. But South Africa’s lingering apartheid-era health system, enduring levels of poverty, and year-long inability to obtain decent amounts of vaccines …

Africa CDC says 11 countries on continent facing a 4th COVID-19 wave
3 years ago

Africa CDC says 11 countries on continent facing a 4th COVID-19 wave

China Daily  

People wait before receiving the vaccine against coronavirus disease at a mass immunization venue inside Cairo University, in Cairo, Egypt, Sept 8, 2021. The fourth wave of the pandemic is currently gripping countries including Algeria, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia, Africa CDC head John Nkengasong said on Thursday. The continent has seen an average 6 percent decrease in new COVID-19 cases …

India’s Serum Institute resumes vaccine exports to COVAX
3 years ago

India’s Serum Institute resumes vaccine exports to COVAX

Al Jazeera  

The world’s largest vaccine maker halted shipments of COVID shots in March as India saw an explosion in infections. The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, has resumed exports of coronavirus vaccines to the UN-backed COVAX distribution programme after halting most overseas sales in March. At the time, Serum Institute had contracts to provide COVAX with 200 …

Scientists are mystified, and wary, as Africa avoids COVID-19 disaster
3 years, 1 month ago

Scientists are mystified, and wary, as Africa avoids COVID-19 disaster

LA Times  

At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruits and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. “The police demand bribes, so I lose money if I don’t move around with a mask.” Days earlier, Zimbabwe recorded …

World faces shortage of syringes as COVID vaccine doses rise
3 years, 1 month ago

World faces shortage of syringes as COVID vaccine doses rise

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — African health officials and the United Nations are warning of a looming shortage of more than 2 billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world as the supply of COVID-19 doses rises, and routine vaccinations could be affected, too. Routine childhood vaccinations “are going to be impacted,” said Sibusiso Hlatjwako of the health organization …

Syringe shortfall threatens Africa’s COVID vaccine drive
3 years, 1 month ago

Syringe shortfall threatens Africa’s COVID vaccine drive

Al Jazeera  

UNICEF is predicting an ‘imminent shortfall’ of up to 2.2 billion of the single-use syringes used to give jabs. Africa’s struggle to inoculate people against COVID-19 risks being hobbled by a shortage of syringes just as supplies of vaccines flood into the continent, the World Health Organization said. UNICEF, the United Nation’s fund for children, is predicting an “imminent shortfall” …

Moderna to supply Africa with up to 110 million COVID doses
3 years, 1 month ago

Moderna to supply Africa with up to 110 million COVID doses

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — Moderna on Tuesday said it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries, which local officials called a breakthrough on the world’s least vaccinated continent. It says “all doses are offered at Moderna’s lowest tiered price.” “It is a great day for us,” the African Union special envoy on COVID-19, …

African Union to buy up to 110 million Moderna COVID vaccines
3 years, 1 month ago

African Union to buy up to 110 million Moderna COVID vaccines

Al Jazeera  

Arrangement brokered in part by the White House which will defer delivery of some doses intended for US to facilitate the deal. The African Union intends to buy up to 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc in an arrangement brokered in part by the White House which will defer delivery of some doses intended for the United …

Awaiting Govt Nod on Exports, Won't Rush Vaccine for Kids: Adar Poonawalla - News18
3 years, 2 months ago

Awaiting Govt Nod on Exports, Won't Rush Vaccine for Kids: Adar Poonawalla - News18

News 18  

Pune-based Serum Institute of India could export 2 to 3 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses to WHO-backed COVAX by November and December, the company’s chief Adar Poonawalla told News18.com. The manufacturer of Covishield, the vaccine which became the backbone of India’s vaccination drive against Covid-19, SII has boosted its production capacity to 22 crore doses per month. “That said, based on …

Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has so far only shipped 2.15 million coronavirus vaccines to developing countries, less than 10% of its target 27 million doses before the end of the year. Most – 21 million – should have been distributed through the international Covax programme, set up and supported by the European Commission and Bill Gates, while the rest would be donated …

Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has so far only shipped 2.15 million coronavirus vaccines to developing countries, less than 10% of its target 27 million doses before the end of the year. Most – 21 million – should have been distributed through the international Covax programme, set up and supported by the European Commission and Bill Gates, while the rest would be donated …

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