New Delhi (NVI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has thanked India and PM Modi for supporting vaccine equity, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Lauding the Prime Minister, the Director-General further stated in a tweet, “Your commitment to COVAX & sharing COVID-19 vaccine doses is helping 60 plus countries start vaccinating their health workers & other priority groups.”
“Hope other countries will follow your example,” he noted.
Thanks ?? & Prime Minister @narendramodi for supporting #VaccinEquity. Your commitment to #COVAX and sharing #COVID19 vaccine doses is helping 60+ countries start vaccinating their #healthworkers and other priority groups. I hope other countries will follow your example.
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) February 25, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access, abbreviated as COVAX, is a global initiative aimed at equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines led by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and others.
On Wednesday, Ghana became the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 6,00,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India (SII).
Covax plans to roll out over 2 billion doses by the end of the year, with at least 1.3 billion doses to be delivered to lower-income countries at no cost to their governments.
-CHK
