'No country, no continent can defeat the coronavirus on its own. We have to join forces.'
OTTAWA — Canada expects to make a financial contribution to the international vaccine coalition known as COVAX, the federal government says, aiming to equitably distribute an eventual COVID-19 vaccine to poorer countries that couldn’t afford it.
“There’s definitely an interest by our government to be part of the facility. That I can confirm,” Louis Belanger said in an interview.COVAX also allows investing countries to be given early access for up to 20 per cent of their populations.The initiative is aimed at circumventing so-called vaccine nationalism — the scramble by individual countries to secure vaccines for their own populations, often by pre-buying doses directly from pharmaceutical companies.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen addresses a press conference following the resignation of the EU trade commissioner, in Brussels on August 27, 2020. After the U.S. opted out, a White House spokesman said it would continue to engage with international organizations in the fight against COVID-19 but added: “we will not be constrained by multilateral organizations influenced by the corrupt World Health Organization and China.”European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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