Some 172 countries are engaging with the WHO-led COVAX plan designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health ...
GENEVA: About 172 countries are engaging with the WHO-led COVAX plan designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization said on Monday , but more funding is urgently needed and countries should now make binding commitments.
"Initially, when there will be limited supply , it's important to provide the vaccine to those at highest risk around the globe," the WHO's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing.It also urged countries to join its plan to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines so they can work together in a coordinated manner.
Bruce Aylward, the WHO's emergencies chief, told a news briefing that"the critical thing is to ensure that some vaccine gets to all countries as early as possible".
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