Last week, its vaccine team said 270 million doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines secured for delivery this year had been taken up. And Russia has offered to supply 300 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the AU scheme along with a financing package. On Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged wealthy nations to share vaccine doses with COVAX, saying the goal of equitable distribution was “in jeopardy”. “So far 210 million doses of vaccine have been administered globally but half of those are in just two countries,” Tedros said in Geneva. COVAX said this month that it had allocated the first tranche of 330 million doses of vaccines for 145 countries, including several in West Africa.

Source: Standard Digital February 24, 2021 09:11 UTC