By ELIZABETH MERAB More by this AuthorThe World Health Organization (WHO) and its key partners have unveiled a plan to purchase two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines for the highest risk populations of the world. KEY PLANThe effort is one pillar of the WHO’s efforts to ensure all countries have access to Covid-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics called the Access to Covid-19 Tools (simply referred to as ACT). To date, the WHO has identified 17 Covid-19 vaccine candidates, which are in clinical evaluation, with another 131 in preclinical stages. "At any given time, there will be a vaccine or two that will be in the front of the race. The remaining one billion doses of the 2 billion the WHO hopes to procure would go to lower-income countries, particularly populations that are at higher risk.

Source: Daily Nation July 05, 2020 15:45 UTC