More than five countries have received vacancies against COVID-19 thanks to COVAX, the global mechanism for the equitable access led by the World Health Organization (OMS) together with Unicef and the Alliance of Vacancies GAVI, between . This hit produces 42 days after sending the first doses of COVAX to international level, in Ghana, the 24th of February.
COVAX reported the 38 million doses in six continents, suministradas por tres fabricantes: AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and the Serum Institute of India (SII). Of the more than 100 countries it has reached, 61 are among the 92 large-scale economies receiving GVI’s anticipated financial vacancies through the Market Guarantee (AMC).
In addition to the availability of summer and April summit drivers, as a consequence of the fact that the manufacturers of vacancies have amplified and optimized their production processes during the initial phase of the deployment, as well as the increase in the demand for vacancies COVID-19 in the India, COVAX hopes to increase the dose to all participating countries that have applied for vacancies “in the first semester of this year”.
“In less than a few months of the first massive evacuation taking place from a clinical ward all over the world, it’s tremendously gratifying that the dose of COVAX has been increased and there are no strikes. It’s possible that COVAX is on the road to death. the economies participating in the first semester of this year, but we are committed to a huge amount of proportions when we end up in the agony phase of the pandemic: only we will be safe as long as we are and our efforts to accelerate “Continuing with the continued support of governors and manufacturers of vacancies. We will continue with the mayor and the most rapid global depletion of vacancies in history, not at the moment for complacency”, concluded the Director-General of GAVI, Seth Berkley.
“COVAX has proportionally the best way to guarantee the most rapid and equitable deployment of safe and efficient vacancies to all persons at risk in all parts of the planet. Priority for the summit of vacancies and works of COVAX. Our collective future, literally, depends on it “, added the Director General of the OMS, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“In the midst of this and that, the ambition to provide the countries with access to the COVID-19 vacancies is very real, thanks to the extraordinary work of our societies in the COVAX Mechanism. No embargo, there is no moment to celebrate; it’s the moment to accelerate. With the variants that are surpassing all over the world, we need to accelerate the global display. “Intellectual property rights, the elimination of direct and indirect media that restrict the export of COVID-19 vacancies and the donation of the dose of sovereign vacancies if possible”, said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
Following its latest summit forecast, COVAX hopes to reach at least 2,000 million vacancy rates by 2021. To target this, the organizations affirm that “COVAX will diversify its charter and announce new agreements with manufacturers of vacancies.