Prognosis
Covax Reaches One Billion Shots Delivered to Poorer Nations
- Milestone was hit much more slowly than expected by WHO
- Agency says it’s faced vaccine hoarding by richer countries
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A cargo of vaccines that arrived in Rwanda pushed Covax, the program created to deliver Covid-19 inoculations more equitably, over the one-billion mark in shots delivered so far, the World Health Organization said.
“Covax is leading the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history, with deliveries to 144 countries to date,” the World Health Organization said in a statement. “But the work that has gone into this milestone is only a reminder of the work that remains.”