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COVAX Blames Bosnia for Hold-up Over COVID-19 Vaccines
While many countries race ahead with their COVID-19 vaccination programs, Bosnia and Herzegovina has barely started - will not receive any vaccines through the COVAX mechanism even in March, according to a document received by Bosnia's Ministry of Civil Affairs from the COVAX office.
"The rich destroyed the system"
As he stated, they do that by directly addressing the producers in order to provide themselves with more doses.
"Some rich countries are approaching producers to provide additional doses of shares that affect contracts with Kovacs," said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhan Gebrejesus at a joint video conference with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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Over 200 million vaccine doses administered globally
More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories, according to an AFP count based on official sources on Feb. 20.
In total 201,042,149 doses had been given worldwide by 1000 GMT - a figure that does not include the latest data from China and Russia, who have stopped making their progress public in recent days.
Germany gives extra 1.5 bln euros for global vaccine rollout
Germany is donating an additional 1.5 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to boost the rollout of vaccines in the world's poorest countries, the finance minister said on Feb. 19, increasing an earlier contribution of 600 million euros.
UN urges global COVID vaccine plan, warns of dangerous inequity
The United Nations on Feb. 17 led calls for a coordinated global effort to vaccinate against COVID-19, warning that gaping inequities in initial efforts put the whole planet at risk.
WHO Grants Emergency Authorization to AstraZeneca Vaccine
The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the U.N. agency's partners to ship millions of doses to countries as part of a U.N.-backed program to tame the pandemic.
WHO gives global green light for AstraZeneca COVID shot
The World Health Organization gave emergency use approval to AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 15, meaning distribution can start to poorer countries starved of doses to fight the pandemic.
BBC: Pragmatic Serbia, that's how it's done
In the article entitled "How Serbia soared ahead in vaccination campaign", BBC states that a comprehensive approach to the procurement of vaccines has put Serbia at the forefront of the race for vaccination of the population in continental Europe.
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"As soon as I saw the problem, I called right away. There would be 1.000 more dead"
Vui said that 50.000 doses of the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus Sputnik V arrived at the Belgrade airport this morning, and that more Pfizer vaccines and AstraZeneca vaccines will arrive by the end of February.
South Africa suspends vaccinations as worries grow over AstraZeneca shot
South Africa suspended the start of its AstraZeneca inoculation programme over concerns the shot does not work on a new variant, with WHO experts due to meet on Feb. 8 to discuss the vaccine already facing questions about its efficacy for over-65s.