EU has shipped tiny percentage of planned COVID-19 shot donations: Source

The World Health Organization has called on Western governments to donate shots to the COVAX programme it runs with vaccine charity GAVI to ensure fair and equitable distribution to the world's neediest.Many poor countries rely on COVAX for their vaccines, but it has so far delivered only 135 million shots globally and is highly dependent on donated doses. Plans to buy shots on its own were temporarily derailed by vaccine makers' production problems and export restrictions in India.

The EU shipments are also small compared with more than 15 million doses donated by Washington and shipped over the past month to countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America as part of the US pledge to give away 80 million vaccines. A big portion of those have been through COVAX.ALMOST ALL ASTRAZENECA

But EU countries have so far promised to donate almost exclusively AstraZeneca shots, the document shows. Johnson & Johnson is the second most frequent choice for donations, although a large portion of pledges are for unspecified shots. German officials said donations would begin in August and confirmed the numbers and types of vaccines to be donated.

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