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GENEVA, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Figures for the doses of COVID-19
vaccines being allocated mainly to 92 low- and middle-income
countries by June from the international COVAX scheme will be
published on Wednesday, agencies said.
In all 190 countries have joined COVAX, launched last April
with the goal of ensuring equitable access to vaccines during
the pandemic.
The GAVI alliance, World Health Organization, Coalition for
Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and the U.N. Children's Fund
will publish its "interim distribution forecast" at 1300 GMT,
GAVI said.
GAVI CEO Seth Berkley said last week that COVAX aimed to
deliver 2.3 billion doses by year-end, including 1.8 billion to
lower income countries at no cost to their governments.
UNICEF, the largest single buyer of vaccines in the world,
expects a "crush" of demand in the first half of the year, with
supplies only loosening in the second, its executive director
Henrietta Fore said on Friday.
A vaccine crisis has flared in some areas, coming to a head
with export controls announced by the European Union which
followed news that AstraZeneca would cut its supply of
doses to the bloc until March due to production problems.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Toby Chopra and
John Stonestreet)
