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WHO says close to Pfizer deal that would give poorer countries access
The World Health Organization is in advanced negotiations with Pfizer to include the firm s Covid-19 shot in the body s vaccine-sharing scheme, which would speed vaccine deliveries to poorer countries, a senior WHO official said on Monday.
The Covax scheme led by the WHO and GAVI vaccine alliance is due to start rolling out vaccines to poor and middle-income countries in February, with two of three billion doses expected to be delivered this year. We are in . detailed discussions with Pfizer. We believe very soon we will have access to that product, WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward told the WHO s executive board meeting, adding that it would then look to add others.
Denzil Taylor has thanked the medical team who helped him recover from Covid-19. Image: Supplied
A towel over his head at 3.35am to prevent him seeing the chaos of a Covid-ravaged hospital. But Power FM’s Denzil Taylor knew he was one of the lucky ones as he was pushed through along a corridor of Flora Clinic in a wheelchair to a vacant bed.
“The doctor said, OK, we have a bed for you,” Taylor told TimesLIVE.
He had been waiting at a ‘Covid Point’ in an emergency ward, exhausted with all the classic symptoms of Covid-19, and asked himself how a bed had suddenly become available at that time. “There’s only one answer to that,” he said. Somebody must have died.
Veteran media personality and former government spokesman Denzil Taylor has shared his joy at being discharged from hospital after recovering from Covid-19.