AMMAN — The
UK will this week
begin delivering 9 million COVID-19 vaccines around the world, including to
Indonesia, Jamaica, and Kenya, to help tackle the pandemic, Foreign Secretary
Dominic Raab announced last week.
اضافة اعلان
Five million doses are being offered to
COVAX, the scheme to ensure equitable, global access to Covid-19
vaccines.
COVAX will urgently distribute them to lower-income countries via an equitable
allocation system, which prioritises delivering vaccines to people who most
need them. Another four million doses will be shared directly with countries in
need, according to a statement from the
British embassy.
Indonesia will receive 600,000 doses,
300,000 will be sent to Jamaica, and 817,000 are to be transported to Kenya,
among other countries.
The UK is donating the University of
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made by Oxford Biomedica in Oxford and packaged in
Wrexham, North Wales.
This is the first tranche
of the 100 million vaccines the Prime Minister pledged the UK would share
within the next year at last month’s G7 in Cornwall, with 30 million due to be
sent by the end of the year. At least 80 million of the 100 million doses will
go to COVAX, with the rest going to countries directly. The donations follow
the pledge that G7 leaders made to vaccinate the world and end the pandemic in
2022.
This week’s deployment will help meet
the urgent need for vaccines from countries around the world, including in
Africa, South East Asia, and the Caribbean, the statement said. These regions
are experiencing high levels of COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths.
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “The UK is sending 9 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, the first
batch of the 100 million doses we’ve pledged, to get the most vulnerable parts
of the world vaccinated as a matter of urgency.”
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