Ambitious global COVAX Facility delivers first doses
The first shipment of vaccine doses by the international COVAX facility reached Ghana on Wednesday Under cloudy skies, the first precious doses of Covid-19 vaccines to be distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility on the African continent arrived Wednesday morning at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. The arrival of some 600,000 doses marked a milestone in a nearly year-long effort by WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and other partners to mount the largest global vaccine campaign in history – and ensure that scarce and often pricey COVID-19 vaccine doses are distributed more equitably. “T...