Botswana’s President has termed Vaccine Global Access Facility, commonly known as Covax, through which African countries access the Covid-19 vaccines, a “scam.”
Vaccines in Ghana: Covax Covid-19 vaccination - How Ghana plan phase by phase injection
24 February 2021
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The WHO and Unicef say di delivery na momentous occasion
Ghana goment collect Covax vaccines first batch of 600,000 doses on Tuesday and dem go conduct dia Covid-19 vaccination phase by phase for different groups of pipo for di west African kontri.
For statement wey di Ministry of Information release, beginning from March 2, 2021, dem go move di Covid-19 vaccines go health centres plus oda centres wey goment a approve for different regions of di kontri.
Di authorities say di first groups of pipo wey dem go begin vaccinate na health workers, pipo wey dey 60 year and ova, pipo wey gt underlying health problem, frontline executive, members of parliament, judiciary and dia staff, frontline security personnel, some religious leaders, essential workers, teachers plus oda personalities for di Greater Accra Metro including Awutu, Senya and Awutu Senya Eas
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Canada’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine is meeting with some sharp criticism from some of the usual suspects in the Ottawa press corp.
Last week, the Globe went big with a story on how Canada was the only G7 country to be drawing on world supplies meant for low and middle-income countries through the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Global Access Facility, or COVAX. That’s part of the WHO’s effort to deliver “fair, equitable and timely access to COVID-19 vaccines.”
The African Union on Wednesday announced that it has purchased 270 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the continent from Pfizer and AstraZeneca through the Serum Institute of India, and from Johnson & Johnson.
At least 50 million of the doses are to be available by April to June and the rest are to be delivered before the end of the year, said the African Union chairman, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“From the onset of this crisis, our focus as a continent has been on collaboration and collective effort. We have held steadfastly to the principle that no country should be
In the US, many vaccines are set to expire even before being distributed.
More than 12 million doses of vaccines have been distributed so far in 33 countries, but none of those countries are in Africa.
South Africa, the most badly hit country on the African continent, has been unable to procure vaccine from Moderna. The country’s government says it was unable to persuade the company to submit its vaccine to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, the agency that approves vaccines.
While Moderna has refused to sell vaccines to South Africa, it has agreed to sell 40 million doses to Canada, 100 million doses to the United States and 160 million doses to the EU.