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U.S. alone won't fill COVAX funding gap, lead official says Reuters 1/22/2021 * Norway said this week it will donate shots * Urges other rich countries to "step up" By Emma Farge GENEVA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to join the COVAX vaccine facility could make a "huge difference" to the financing of the scheme, intended to deliver coronavirus vaccines to poor countries, a diplomat with a lead role in COVAX said on Friday. But Dag Inge Ulstein, Norway's minister of international development who is co-lead of the COVAX Facilitation Council with South Africa, said ot...

World's poor need action, not Covid 'vaccine nationalism', say experts Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/EPA Pharmaceutical companies should do more to transfer vaccine technology to prevent the poorest countries falling behind in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, according to an expert. The warning came from Dag-Inge Ulstein , the co-chair of the global council trying to speed up access to Covid vaccines for the world’s poor, known as the Act (Access to Covid-19 Tools) Accelerator. Ulstein, Norway’s interna...

Norway Commits to Donating COVID-19 Vaccines to Low-Income Countries Dag Inge Ulstein says that equal vaccine distribution is "in the best interest of every country." Why Global Citizens Should Care:  Immunization will play an essential role in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. However, for the vaccines to work, everyone must have access to them, regardless of gender, race, age, socioeconomic status, or nationality. The United Nations is encouraging all countries to prioritize the global distribution of vaccines so that everyone can achieve quality health as a part of Global Goal 3. You can jo...

Other countries have pledged to help poorer nations, but Norway is among the first to do so 'in parallel' with its own programme

By The Associated Press