The WHO-led “Global Access to Vaccines” (COVAX) announced its first round of distribution plan on the 3rd, and North Korea, which claims to have “zero confirmed cases”, was distributed nearly 2 million doses, while Canada was distributed 1.9 million doses, making it the only country in the Group of Seven (G7) to receive vaccines. The vaccine was distributed to Canada, the only country in the Group of Seven (G7) to receive the vaccine, which again stirred up controversy over hoarding and pointed out the “inequality between rich and poor” in the amount per capita.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a donation of $440 million to COVAX, half of which will be used to allow Canada to purchase up to 15 million doses of vaccines. (Reuters)
The WHO official website announced on the 3rd the first round of COVAX vaccine distribution countries list, the Epidemic serious India will be given 97.2 million doses of vaccine, the number of top; Vietnam got 489 million most, South Korea got more than 2.7 million doses, Singapore about 290,000 doses.
The first round of distribution involves more than 330 million doses of vaccines, including 336 million doses of Oxford-Astedilicom vaccine (Oxford Vaccine) and 1.2 million doses of BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, with 145 countries or regions, mostly low- and middle-income countries, participating, with the goal of getting an average of 3.3 percent of the total population vaccinated by the middle of this year. COVAX said North Korea could receive nearly 2 million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the first half of this year.
North Korea has so far claimed zero local diagnoses, but the Chosun Ilbo reported on April 4 that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered that about 2 million doses of the vaccine be obtained with international support in the first quarter of 2021. According to North Korean sources, Kim Jong Un has reportedly stressed to relevant authorities the need to prepare vaccine storage and prepare freezing facilities to store the vaccines. The government has stepped up penalties for violators of quarantine measures who have been shot or sent to political prison facilities.
Last September, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a donation of $440 million ($340 million) to COVAX, half of which will be used to enable Canada to buy up to 15 million doses of vaccines and the rest to support low- and middle-income countries. The country is also ordering large quantities of vaccines directly from pharmaceutical companies, and an analysis by The Guardian estimates that the amount purchased will be enough for about 9.6 doses per person. Some of the agreed-upon vaccines are still in development, but Canada’s vaccine stockpile is still sufficient to provide four doses to the population, taking into account the vaccine for which Phase III trial results have been published. Other countries that order large quantities of vaccines from pharmaceutical companies, such as Australia, Israel and the United Kingdom, do not appear on the COVAX list.
Berkeley, president of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI), which is leading COVAX, said it would “certainly help if rich countries dropped their first round of vaccine distribution from COVAX, meaning more vaccines would be available for others to use.
Fatima Hassan, head of the South African organization health Justice Initiative, criticized the program as reflecting that COVAX is not a sustainable solution for low- and middle-income countries and that it is based on how much money countries can invest. Jason Nickerson, a humanitarian affairs consultant for MSF, also said that “I don’t think it’s a defensible position” to use the COVAX vaccine, which could be used for high-risk groups in low-income countries, to vaccinate lower-risk people in Canada.
Municipal health care workers in the Brazilian state of Amazonia travel by boat to provide vaccines to local residents along the river.
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