OTTAWA - Canada is helping fund the creation of a new international system to help distribute any extra COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, says International Development Minister Karina Gould.
Resident Annie Innes, 90, receives the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Abercorn House Care Home in Hamilton, Scotland, Monday Dec. 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Russell Cheyne/PA via AP
OTTAWA - Canada is helping fund the creation of a new international system to help distribute any extra COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries, says International Development Minister Karina Gould.
“Canada is really is leaning into this space. The world is not at a point of donating excess capacity because we are just at the very beginning of vaccines getting approved,” Gould said in an interview after announcing of $485 million in new money toward the global effort to provide COVID-19 medicines to poor countries.
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