Mauritania receives more vaccines through COVAX

STORY: Mauritania Virus Vaccine - Mauritania receives more vaccines through COVAX

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TYPE: Arabic/Natsound

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

STORY NUMBER: 4322910

DATELINE: 26 April 2021 - Nouakchott

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Nouakchott - 26 April 2021

1. Wide of plane landing at Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport

2. Various of boxes with AstraZeneca vaccines being unloaded from plane

3. Members of UNICEF putting stickers on boxes reading "COVAX. Gavi. Cepi. Unicef. World Health Organization"

4. Mid of Mohamed mahmoud Ely mahmoud, Director of Strategic Information and Epidemiological Surveillance at Mauritania Health Ministry

5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic)  Mohamed mahmoud Ely mahmoud, Director of Strategic Information and Epidemiological Surveillance at Mauritania Health Ministry:

"Today we have received a new batch of vaccines via COVAX, 31,200 doses, provided by the global mechanism COVAX. The vaccine that we have received is the AstraZeneca one."

6. Various of boxes containing vaccines being loaded into truck

7. Truck leaving

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The first doses of vaccines donated by Europe and delivered through the COVAX programme arrived in Mauritania on Monday.

Last week France became the first rich country to donate COVID-19 vaccines from its national supply to a developing nation through the U.N.'s jab rollout program for low- and middle-income countries, shipping doses to Mauritania.

COVAX is an international collaboration to deliver vaccines equitably across the world.

"Today we have received a new batch of vaccines via COVAX, 31,200 doses" said Mohamed mahmoud Ely mahmoud, Director of Strategic Information and Epidemiological Surveillance at Mauritania Health Ministry who was at the airport in Nouakchott, receiving the shipment that arrived in an Air France plane.

On Twitter, the French embassy in Mauritania said the objective of the donation is to help the African country to speed up the vaccination.

Leaders of the COVAX program hailed the French donation, which was announced by President Emmanuel Macron last Friday, and called on other rich countries to follow suit at a time of intense competition for short supplies of vaccines, as coronavirus infection counts are on the rise.

Macron said France would donate at least 500,000 doses through to mid-June to the program, and the total could reach around 13 million from France alone by year-end, officials said.

While New Zealand has pledged to donate 1.6 million doses of vaccine that it had been set to receive through COVAX, the French donation is the first from a national supply.

Spain has pledged to start donating up to 7.5 million doses to COVAX this year, once half of its own population is vaccinated.

Based on current vaccination rates, that milestone is expected to be reached by July.

Spain's donations would benefit Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Gavi, a Geneva-based public-private partnership, said other countries have expressed interest in donations of doses through COVAX — including Britain, Canada and Norway.

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