The Morrison Government will contribute an additional $50 million to the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (COVAX AMC) to ensure more people in our region and across the world have access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. This additional contribution will help COVAX deliver on its objective of vaccinating 30% of populations of AMC countries, from an original goal to reach
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Australia has provided an additional K167 ($52) million in funding to assist the Government of Papua New Guinea to recover from the health, economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This targeted financing will support the continued delivery of critical health and education services in the country.
In the health sector, faith-based organizations will now be able to provide accessible primary health care while the education sector will utilize the funds to help finance the cost of tuition for primary school children.
In a joint statement from the Australian High Commission, Senator Marise Payne and Minister for International Development Senator Zed Seselja said the support is part of Australia’s K982 million ($304.7m) Pacific COVID-19 Response Package to help their Pacific and Timor-Leste partners to manage the economic and fiscal shocks of COVID-19, and to maintain critical social services.
Today, we are joining over
700 health professionals and academics in sending an open
letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to
take a leadership role in expanding the global production of
COVID-19 vaccines and other medical tools to fight the
pandemic.
The letter, signed by 207 doctors, 177
academics and 111 public health professionals, asks the
government to help remove legal and technical barriers to
increasing the production of COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostic
tests, treatments and other equipment.
We argue
there is more Australia and other wealthy nations
can and should be doing to end the pandemic.
The
need to act urgently
The COVID-19 pandemic is