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GENEVA: The Covax programme to ensure equitable worldwide access to Covid-19 vaccines on Wednesday published its first distribution list, with enough doses for countries to immunise more than three per cent of their populations by mid-2021. Pakistan is among the top three recipients, the other two being India and Nigeria.
The distribution plan comes with lower-income countries falling behind in the vaccination race a problem Covax was set up to address. It broke down how the programme’s initial 337.2 million doses will be distributed, with first deliveries expected in late February.
Some 145 countries are set to receive enough doses to immunise 3.3pc of their collective population by mid-2021, Covax said.
COVAX to Provide 17.2m Coronavirus Vaccine Doses to Pakistan
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The COVAX program of the World Health Organization (WHO), which aims at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for every country in the world, on Wednesday announced the countries it would be provide with an initial limited volume of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with Pakistan slated to get 17.2 million doses.
According to an official statement, COVAX plans to provide sufficient doses to immunize around 3 percent of each recipient country’s population by the middle of the year. It said that distribution of the program’s initial 337.2 million doses was determined with regards to readiness to vaccinate; whether or not vaccination campaigns had already been initiated; and the assessment of risk to healthcare worker exposure.
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The COVAX initiative for equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, on Wednesday, published a list on how it plans to distribute enough vaccines to countries to immunise more than 3 percent of their populations by June 2021.
COVAX, in this light, has planned to support Nigeria with 16 million doses of the vaccines.
This development comes amid concerns that lower-income countries will be left out of the immunisation race dominated by rich nations.
It would be recalled that these concerns led to the formation of COVAX, which is led by the United Nations-backed vaccine alliance Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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