Including financial supports, Justin Trudeau says Canada will help deliver at least 200 million shots of COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries
Canada will donate 10 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to the COVAX vaccine sharing facility and donate $15-million to help make mRNA vaccines in Africa.
In all, between financial contributions and direct delivery of doses, Canada says it will help deliver at least 200 million shots of vaccine by the end of next year. On average the G20 nations have fully vaccinated about 55 per cent of their populations. Canada has fully vaccinated 74 per cent of its entire population.“These differences are morally unacceptable and undermine the global recovery,” he said.
Canada previously promised to donate 40 million excess doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax vaccines, the latter of which is still in development. Canada also donated $515-million to COVAX to buy up to 87 million doses itself, including $75-million for distribution costs and supplies such as syringes and needles.
All those delivered so far are AstraZeneca doses. J&J has suffered from production issues, and Novavax has not yet been authorized anywhere.In addition to the new doses, Canada will also donate $15-million to a new technology transfer hub for mRNA vaccines being built in South Africa to help teach African companies to manufacture vaccines like those made by Moderna and Pfizer.
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