China commits to provide more COVID-19 vaccines to ASEAN

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While the Philippines has already received more than five million vaccines through the COVAX facility as of today, other Southeast Asian countries, including nations that managed to control the coronavirus last year, are struggling to contain recent outbreaks as vaccine shortages leave their populat

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and Chinese Foreign Minister and State Counselor Wang Yi during the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ in Chongqing, China on Monday, June 7, 2021.

Aside from enhancing public health cooperation and strengthening regional and global supply chains for medical supplies and equipment, China and the ASEAN agreed to further expand vaccine cooperation and promote “equitable access to and accelerate production and distribution of safe, effective, quality and affordable vaccines for all”.

The COVAX project faces a number of roadblocks, including lack of vaccine supplies, a small number of listed vaccine manufacturers, sovereign legal immunity against vaccine exports, patent waiver uncertainty, limitations on vaccine-making supplies, inadequate logistics and distribution systems in low-income countries, and financial constraints.

Further, Cambodia also raised concern over the “insufficiency” of the COVAX’s minimum coverage target of 20 percent of the population to achieve global herd immunity, which would necessitate vaccination coverage of between 60 percent and 80 percent of the population.

 

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