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BY: Kweku Zurek
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Countries relying on the COVAX scheme to vaccinate their citizens against the COVID-19 pandemic will have to make alternative arrangements after the Serum Institute of India (SII), the largest single supplier to the scheme said shipments would only resume at the end of this year.
The scheme was set up last year to try to ensure fair access to vaccines among rich and poor nations but the SII has made none of its planned shipments since exports were suspended in March as a result of India's COVID-19 health crisis.
More than 49 million vaccine doses have been delivered through COVAX so far but there were no shipments for March, April or May after a deadly second wave of infections in India.