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Norway has donated another million vaccine doses to the Covax immunization program to be given to poorer countries. “There is an urgent need to vaccinate health workers and vulnerable groups in countries with weaker health systems,” Development Minister Dag-Inge Ulstein said today, according to a statement. The program was established in 2020 to provide rapid access to CoV vaccines to all countries in the world.
The donation is options Norway purchased through Covax last year. Thus, they are not vaccine doses scheduled in Norway’s vaccination program.
WHO: 190 million doses needed by June
Norway has previously transferred vaccine options (AstraZeneca as well as Biontech and Pfizer) to Covax. In total, Norway’s contribution now amounts to 1.7 million doses. Prime Minister Erna Solberg had announced in May at the Global Health Summit that she would share five million doses of vaccine through Covax as part of the international pandemic response.
The program, co-founded by the World Health Organization (WHO), had last week appealed to wealthy countries to donate more vaccines. It said 190 million vaccine doses would be needed by the end of June.
— source: orf.at/picture: pixabay.com
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