Canada to receive significant doses from Covax fund meant to ensure access for poor countries; Chile and New Zealand to also receive above-average Covax doses
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The United States – the worst-affected country worldwide in terms of both the number of coronavirus cases and the number of people who have died in the pandemic, has passed a death toll of 450,000, according to Johns Hopkins University as it approaches a staggering half a million lives lost.
The Biden administration has warned that the US toll could pass 600,000 before the virus is under control.
Canada is entitled to receive shots under the Covax scheme, in which advance purchases by wealthy nations are used to underwrite vaccine development and subsidise doses for poorer countries. It has contributed about $345m, half of which was to pay for its own doses.
But Global health authorities have criticised countries for making private deals – of which Canada has made enough to secure 9.6 doses per person – that they say push up vaccine prices and represent a form of “double-dipping” – taking supplies from Covax while at the same time signing private deals that make it harder for the facility to secure doses that would be shared equitably.
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