COVAX Vaccine Facility

Brazil, Mexico, Philippines among those due to get Pfizer shots from COVAX in Q2

The COVAX programme offers a lifeline to low-income countries in particular, allowing them to inoculate health workers and others at high risk, even if their governments have not managed to secure...

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a signpost of India's Serum Institute, the world's largest maker of vaccines, which is developing a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at its laboratory in Pune, India, May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Euan Rocha

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'Helpless': alarm after India delays vaccines to COVAX programme for poor countries

Vials of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate are seen in an undated photograph. Johnson & Johnson/Handout via REUTERS.

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COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme to send out 'hundreds of millions' of J&J shots

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WHO: Vaccine rollout unaffected by concerns over AstraZeneca

FILE PHOTO: Biomedical engineers pack a consignment of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines under the COVAX scheme against coronavirus disease (Covid-19), before distribution at the Kitengela cold rooms stores in Kitengela, outside Nairobi, Kenya March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

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Africa proves rocky terrain for Russian and Chinese vaccines

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UNICEF chief: $1 billion more needed for COVAX Covid-19 vaccine rollout

The World Health Organization (WHO) has so far left the question of financial claims unresolved as it seeks to ensure shots are fairly distributed around the world Photo: Reuters

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World’s first Covax jab injected as US eyes J&J rollout

FILE PHOTO: A health worker checks the temperature of a traveller as part of the coronavirus screening procedure at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko/File Photo

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