WHO warns that Covid-19 is moving faster than the global vaccine rollout, adding the G7's pledge to send a billion vaccine doses to poorer nations is not enough
Boxes of AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccines, redeployed from the Democratic Republic of Congo, arrive at a cold storage facility in Accra, Ghana on May 7, 2021.
Faced with outrage over disparities in jab access, the Group of Seven industrialised powers pledged during a weekend summit in Britain to take their total dose donations to more than one billion, up from 130 million promised in February. "More than 10,000 people are dying every day... these communities need vaccines, and they need them now, not next year."
Many of the donated G7 doses will be filtered through Covax, a global body charged with ensuring equitable vaccine distribution. "We need to see more clarity around the actual number of doses donated, and exactly how long it's going to take to translate their pledges into real impact and access," the medical charity's Hu Yuanqiong said.
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