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AZ Vaccine Rollout Continues-Philippines, Indonesia Next

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Scott Beasley at Sky News tweets: "NEW: AstraZeneca mass rollout of Covid vaccine to developing world through COVAX underway. Supplying 142 low & middle income countries. Will start arriving this week in: Philippines, Indonesia, Fiji, Mongolia, Moldova. Follows Ghana and Ivory Coast last week. Indian manufactured by AZ & its partner Serum Institute of India."

  • AZ CEO: "These first steps towards fulfilling our broad, equitable & no-profit emergency response to the pandemic mean millions of people, irrespective of their country's income level, will soon be protected against this deadly virus."
  • Continued rollout under COVAX scheme will be crucial for getting people in emerging markets vaccinated. Yesterday, WHO DG Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticised DMs for vaccinating people at low risk from COVID-19 before sending any doses abroad to poorer nations.

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