UN-backed COVAX mechanism delivers its 1 billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose

Along with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Vaccine Alliance GAVI, and partners, WHO has led the largest vaccine procurement and proviso cognition successful past with deliveries to 144 countries to date.

According to a property merchandise published connected Sunday, arsenic of 13 January 2022, retired of 194 countries members of WHO, 36 person vaccinated little than 10% of their population, and 88 little than 40%.

“COVAX’s ambition was compromised by hoarding/stockpiling successful affluent countries, catastrophic outbreaks starring to borders and proviso being locked. And a deficiency of sharing of licenses, technology, and know-how by pharmaceutical companies meant manufacturing capableness went unused”, the bureau explained.

On 24 February 2021, Ghana became the archetypal state successful the satellite to person vaccines done COVAX erstwhile 600,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered to Accra. 

The enactment that remains

COVAX is presently moving with governments, manufacturers and partners to guarantee that erstwhile countries person vaccines, they tin get them to radical quickly.

“The enactment that has gone into this (1 billion) milestone is lone a reminder of the enactment that remains”, the UN’s wellness bureau underscored.

They added that with updated vaccines successful the pipeline, citizens should request that governments and pharmaceutical companies stock wellness tools globally and “bring an extremity to the decease and demolition cycles of this pandemic, bounds caller variants and thrust a planetary economical recovery”.

COVAX is 1 of 3 pillars of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, which was launched by WHO successful April 2020 successful effect to the pandemic.

The ACT Accelerator is simply a ground-breaking planetary collaboration to accelerate the development, production, and equitable entree to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.