Tag: COVAX

WHO urges Covid jab makers to give Covax 50% of doses

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The WHO on Monday called for Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to give Covax first refusal on new doses, or commit half of their volumes to the global jab equity scheme. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said manufacturers should turn their attention to the Covax facility, which has struggled to get donation-funded doses to poorer countries. Tedros voiced his frustration that several poor countries have been unable to […]

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Covax raises $2.4 bn to help combat jabs shortfall

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covax vaccine program secured another $2.4 billion from donors on Wednesday, but underlined it was still struggling to get enough doses to help poorer countries fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The scheme is trying to get enough vaccines for 30 percent of the population in 92 of the poorest participating territories — 20 percent in India — with donors covering the cost. But despite raising more than the […]

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PHL donating $1 million to COVAX Facility, says President Duterte

Duterte: “It’s our turn also to return the goodwill that they (COVAX) have shown”   (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said the Philippines will be donating $1 million to the COVAX Facility in response to its request for aid, and as a sign of gratitude of its big help in donating millions of doses of vaccines to the country. COVAX which is operating under the World Health Organization has so far donated over 2.5 […]

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Covax needs $2 billion more by June for poor countries

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covax global vaccine-sharing program said Thursday it needs $2.0 billion in additional funding by the beginning of June in order to boost coronavirus inoculation programs in lower-income countries. “We need an additional $2 billion to lift coverage… up to nearly 30 percent, and we need it by June 2 to lock in supplies now so that doses can be delivered through 2021, and into early 2022,” the mechanism’s organizers — […]

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Pres. Duterte directs Galvez to give donated Pfizer doses from COVAX to poor Filipinos

Palace says directive is in accordance with COVAX guidelines   (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said the Pfizer vaccines donated by the COVAX Facility should be reserved for indigent Filipinos in accordance with the conditions set by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the vaccines’ delivery. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr., said that the instructions were given amid the reported preference by many, especially the well-off for the Pfizer doses that have been donated […]

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193k initial Pfizer doses arrive in the PHL

Pfizer doses to be distributed to Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao, other major cities that can handle jab’s -70 °C storage requirement   (Eagle News) — The initial 193,050 doses of the Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country on Friday night, May 10. This was part of the first batch of a total of 1.3 million doses of Pfizer vaccines from the World Health Organization’s COVAX Facility expected this month, according to Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., […]

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Covax signs deal for 500 million Moderna Covid vaccine doses

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The Covax global vaccine equity program has signed an advance purchase agreement with Moderna for 500 million doses of its Covid-19 jabs, the scheme’s co-leaders Gavi announced Monday. “We are very pleased to sign this new agreement with Moderna, giving Covax facility participants access to yet another highly efficacious vaccine,” Seth Berkley, chief executive of the Gavi vaccine alliance, said in a statement. © Agence France-Presse

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Covax backs AstraZeneca as vaccines reach 100 territories

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Covax backed the AstraZeneca jab on Thursday as the scheme celebrated shipping coronavirus vaccine doses to 100 different territories around the world, despite delays dogging deliveries. AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine accounts for almost the entire first wave of doses being distributed via the facility, which ensures the 92 poorest participating economies can access jabs for free. But the programme has been hit by delays after New Delhi put the […]

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Egypt gets hundreds of thousands of vaccines via Covax

  CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) —  Egypt has received over 854,000 coronavirus vaccines through the Covax facility for lower and middle income countries, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The AstraZeneca vaccines, the first to be provided through COVAX to Egypt, were delivered by plane to Cairo late Wednesday, WHO said in a statement. Egypt has registered more than 200,000 cases of coronavirus, including some 12,000 deaths. The health ministry has said frontline health workers, the […]

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WHO seeks 10 million vaccine doses ‘immediately’ for last nations

  by Nina LARSON Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (WHO) The World Health Organization called Friday for the donation of 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses so every country can start immunising within the first 100 days of 2021, as cases rise worldwide. The UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a rush to secure vaccines had delayed deliveries that Covax, the scheme for getting jabs to poorer nations, had been counting on. “Bilateral deals, […]

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Pres. Duterte asks DOH to probe cases of non-health workers who jumped the line to get COVID jabs

Makes appeal to follow priority list so as not to imperil COVAX Facility vaccine deliveries   (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte expressed dismay about some persons who are not health workers who got vaccines against COVID-19, which was against the protocol of the Philippine vaccine rollout. Duterte said that this incidents could put in peril the arrival of more vaccines from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVAX Facility since the condition to vaccinate health […]

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Nearly 409k health care workers already vaccinated; over 2.37M vaccine doses to arrive before March ends

400k more Sinovac doses to arrive tomorrow; almost 2M AstraZeneca doses to arrive until March 29 – Galvez   (Eagle News) – Close to 409,000 health care workers have already been vaccinated against COVID-19, and more will be given shots as over 2.37 million vaccine doses from Sinovac and AstraZenece are scheduled to arrive before the month ends, according to vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. “Tayo ay nakapagtala na 408,995 health care workers na […]

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