GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization on Thursday urged Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to make good on their commitments as the planet’s poorest countries await their first doses.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Covax facility — the global Covid-19 vaccine procurement and distribution effort ensuring poorer countries can access doses — was now ready to begin.
Around 336 million AstraZeneca-Oxford doses and 1.2 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses — the only two vaccines with WHO approval — are set to start being shipped out later this month through Covax.
“At the beginning of the year I issued a call to action to ensure that vaccination of h…
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