Coronavirus: Poor countries face long wait for vaccines despite promises
AP/New Dehli, India Filed on December 15, 2020
Volunteers wait to be checked at a vaccine trial facility for AstraZeneca at Soweto s Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday Nov. 30, 2020.
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Fears have been raised over COVAX, the ambitious scheme set up by WHO to ensure the whole world has access to Covid-19 vaccines.
With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if the rollout will take many months. But for poorer countries, the road will be far longer and rougher.
Dec 15, 2020 3:33 PM EDT
NEW DELHI (AP) With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if the rollout will take many months. But for poorer countries, the road will be far longer and rougher.
The ambitious initiative known as COVAX created to ensure the entire world has access to COVID-19 vaccines has secured only a fraction of the 2 billion doses it hopes to buy over the next year, has yet to confirm any actual deals to ship out vaccines and is short on cash.
Developing countries face long wait for COVID-19 vaccines despite promises Maria Cheng and Aniruddha Ghosal NEW DELHI Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if the rollout will take many months. But for poorer countries, the road will be far longer and rougher.