Vanuatu receives 24,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility
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Port Vila, Vanuatu, 20 May 2021 – Yesterday on 19 May, Vanuatu joins Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Nauru, Tuvalu and Samoa, in the Pacific islands, to receive COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. This is a historic step towards achieving the goal to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally, in what will be part of the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history.
The 19 May 2021 arrival in Port Vila of 24,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine marks the seventh country for vaccines to arrive in the Pacific region through the COVAX Facility in the global partnership’s effort to deliver at least two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2021.