COVID-19 vaccine: 100 million additional vaccines doses secured for poorer countries

Several international health groups anunced on Tuesday, September 29 that y were planning to secure as many as 100 million ditional doses to potential COVID-19 vaccine for poorer national in 2021. anuncement nearly doubles number of vaccine doses alrey secured by Gavi vaccine alliance and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

ditional vaccine doses secured for poorer countries

re are currently almost a dozen potential vaccines that are in final phases of testing and World Bank has alrey put aside $12 billion to help poor countries to acquire and distribute vaccine. World Bank in a statement also ded that world and global ecomy will t be able to fully recover until a vaccine is found so that people can return to ir rmal lives with confidence

COVID-19 pandemic which saw its first outbreak in a wet market in Wuhan, China last year has w spre all across world. virus, named COVID-19 by World Health Organisation, has infected over 33 million people worldwide with global death toll crossing 1,000,000. US has reported more than 7.2 million positive COVID-19 cases and a death toll of over 200,000.

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Nigeria’s President urges UN to ensure COVID-19 vaccine for all

During his dress to United Nations General Assembly via video conference on Wednesday, September 23, Nigeria’s President Muhammu Buhari called for “uninhibited supply of safe and effective coronavirus vaccines for all”. Meanwhile, or African nations have sought equitable distribution of any COVID-19 vaccine.

Nigerian President also stated that it COVID-19 vaccine was t me available to all, especially poorer nations n UN would have “failed in its core mission of giving expression, direction and solution to yearnings of international community”. Experts have claimed that African continent will require at least 1.5 billion doses of vaccine in order to immunize 60 per cent of continent’s population.

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