Global Covid-19 vaccine-sharing programme reaches milestone of 1 billion doses

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BRUSSELS - The Covax global vaccine-sharing programme has delivered 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses, one of the organisations which manages it said on Saturday .

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Supplies to poorer nations have long been very limited because of lack of vaccines, as wealthier states secured most of the doses initially available from December 2020.

Covax was launched in 2020 with the goal of delivering 2 billion doses by the end of 2021, but was slowed by wealthier states' initial hoarding of limited shots, export restrictions and frequent changes within its organisation.About one-third have been donated by rich nations, despite Covax's initial plans to supply only jabs procured directly by the programme with a budget of over US$10 billion in donors' funds.

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