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Fund COVAX to Reduce Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Inequity: UN

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The COVAX international vaccine initiative requires the U.S.$4.2 billion. It is required over the subsequent two months to form sure that “sooner rather than later”. The approved inoculation can get down in Africa”, UN chief António Guterres has said. He acknowledged that several countries have made “an enormous effort” to form sure vaccinations for his or her own populations while at the same time, the COVAX financing requirements have yet to be fully met.

Meanwhile, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former minister of finance, has assured Nigeria and other African countries of access to COVID-19 vaccines as from the highest of January, through the first quarter of 2021. She added that the Pfizer vaccine and thus AstraZeneca were presently being negotiated so as that poor countries don’t get to substitute a queue behind rich countries.

Data source: All Africa news

TOA Correspondent

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