UNICEF director calls on the world to send more supplies to India
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UNICEF has sent supplies to India but they are not enough, Executive Director Henrietta Fore told CNN’s Richard Quest.
“We are calling on the world to help us,” she said. “And then, because India is such an enormous vaccine manufacturing component of the world s supply chain, we need to get India back into the business of making vaccines for the world.”
She called on countries to lift import and export restrictions related to vaccines, to support the ability to manufacture vaccines in other locations and to consider licensing some production technologies.
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Image: ReutersCovax has shipped more than 38 million vaccine doses to 111 countries in seven weeks, most of them AstraZeneca s shot.
Top UN financial and vaccine officials on Thursday urged rich countries to donate excess COVID-19 vaccine doses to a programme supplying lower income countries in a bid to end the pandemic and get the global economy back on track.
At an event organised by the Gavi Vaccine Alliance to boost support for the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative, the officials appealed for another $2 billion by June for the programme, which aims to buy up to 1.8 billion doses in 2021.
COVAX facility aims at equitable access, distribution of vaccines:
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Covax distributed 38 million Covid-19 vaccines in 100 countries
Covax distributed 38 million Covid-19 vaccines in 100 countries
United Nations, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Covax initiative, supported by the UN, distributed as many as 38 million anti-Covid-19 vaccines in over 100 countries during the last 42 days. This WHO initiative is focused on achieving an equitable distribution of these doses and enhancing collaboration with pharmaceutical manufacturers from developed and developing nations.
According to the UN official website, most of the vaccines distributed are AstraZeneca and Pfizer. Out of the 100 countries that received these doses, 61 are low-income nations that cannot afford to pay for the vaccines, the website added.