Here's how the COVAX scheme is distributing its first batch of coronavirus vaccines to low-income countries

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With lower-income countries falling behind in the COVID-19 vaccination race, the COVAX program to ensure equitable worldwide access to vaccines has now published its first distribution list.

WHO immunisation programme coordinator Ann Lindstrand said priority was given to countries that had not started vaccinating, while health worker deaths in January were also factored in., funding is covered through donations, while for richer countries, buying into bulk purchases operates like a back-up insurance policy for their own vaccination programmes.

A woman waits to receive a COVID-19 vaccine shot at Shatabdi Hospital in Mumbai, India on 30 January.Pfizer-BioNTech is the only vaccine to have received emergency use approval from the WHO. Evaluation is underway for the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine.

 

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