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World Health Organization’s COVAX vaccine scheme risks failure, say internal documents
The global scheme to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries faces a “very high” risk of failure, potentially leaving nations that are home to billions of people with no access to vaccines until as late as 2024, internal documents say.
Key points:
- COVAX aims to vaccinate 20 per cent of people in the world’s poorest countries next year
- Internal documents show, however, that the program is suffering from a lack of funding
- The United States and China have not made financial commitments to COVAX
The World Health Organization’s COVAX program is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in low and middle income countries against coronavirus.
It aims to deliver at least 2 billion vaccine doses by the end of 2021 to cover 20 per cent of the…
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