AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in contrast with his punctuality when China delivered its doses of
Sinovac‘s CoronaVac.
The chief executive on Thursday night was expected to spearhead the vaccine turnover ceremony of Britain’s AstraZeneca doses courtesy of the
World Health Organization‘s COVAX Global Facility.
The COVAX initiative ensures that countries around the globe, especially the low and middle-income ones, have equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
Reports said Duterte was supposed to be at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City at 7:30 p.m. The vaccine shipment containing 487,200 doses arrived around 7:20 p.m. at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.
First tranche of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in The Gambia via the COVAX initiative
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Banjul, 03 March 2021 The Gambia has received its first shipment of 36,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility, less than a week after the Ministry of Health submitted the required documentation for the delivery of the vaccines to the country. The AstraZeneca vaccines were shipped by UNICEF on behalf of COVAX, from the Serum Institute of India (SII), and arrived at the Banjul International Airport late Tuesday night. More shipments of COVID-19 vaccines and syringes are expected in the coming weeks. With the arrival of this consignment, The Gambia joins other African countries, such as Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d Ivoire and Angola, to recently receive COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX Facility.
States gear up as Nigeria gets 3.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
Nigeria on Tuesday received 3.94 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID – 19 vaccine.
The vaccine was received through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (COVAX).
COVAX, an initiative co-led by the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI and the World Health Organisation seeks to ensure equitable access to a COVID – 19 vaccine by dividing about two billion doses across 92 low-and middle-income countries.
Nigeria is the third African country to benefit from the COVAX facility after Ghana and Ivory Coast.
The COVID – 19 vaccines arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja aboard the Boeing 777 300 ER aircraft of the Emirates Airline at 11.45am.