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COVAX vaccine delivery target reduced to 1.425b doses this year

| Updated: September 10, 2021 22:00:30


A pack of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines is seen as the country receives its first batch of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines under the COVAX scheme, at the international airport of Accra in Ghana on February 24 this year -Reuters file photo A pack of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines is seen as the country receives its first batch of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines under the COVAX scheme, at the international airport of Accra in Ghana on February 24 this year -Reuters file photo

The COVAX vaccine-sharing facility will likely receive 1.425 billion doses of anti-COVID-19 shots from donor countries this year, down from a July estimate of 2 billion, the GAVI Vaccine Alliance said on Wednesday.

Reasons for the cut include export restrictions on key supplier Serum Institute of India (SII), Gavi said in a joint statement with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the World Health Organisation and Unicef, reports Reuters.

Manufacturing problems at Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca as well as delays in the regulatory review of shots developed by US biotech firm Novavax and China's Clover Biopharmaceuticals were further limiting factors, the organisations said.

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