Covid Hit These Countries Hard. Now They Face Big Vaccine Bills
Bloomberg 3/16/2021 James Paton and Andrea Jaramillo
(Bloomberg) Colombia has already paid a steep price in the pandemic with more than 61,000 deaths from Covid-19. Now the South American nation faces another cost: about $850 million to immunize its population.
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South Africa, Colombia and other middle-income countries hit hard by Covid have lined up behind richer ones to buy vaccines in hopes of averting more suffering. They’ve pursued cheaper doses from AstraZeneca Plc, as well as far more expensive shots from Moderna Inc.
With an annual health budget of just $10 billion for about 50 million residents, Colombia is one of many countries struggling to afford those immunizations. Health-care advocates have said that drugmakers have the upper hand in negotiations with governments that have limited cash and aren’t eligible for free doses. Emerging details show the extent of the
Un laboratorio en India fabricará 252 millones de dosis adicionales de la Sputnik V
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Un laboratorio indio fabricará más de 250 millones de dosis adicionales de la Sputnik V
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India’s Covid-19 vaccine drive jumps four-fold as PM Modi is inoculated Bloomberg
Following a sluggish start, India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive one of the world’s biggest has jumped nearly four-fold after the country opened it up to more people and got a crucial public endorsement from the inoculation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. © Indian Prime Ministry/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Almost 21 million shots have been administered in India so far, up from 5.4 million a month ago, according to data compiled as of Sunday by Bloomberg and Johns Hopkins University. The number of doses per 100 people has also climbed to 1.56 from 0.41. A record 1.6 million Indians received a Covid-19 vaccine on Saturday, data show.