Covax delivers first Covid vaccines in 'momentous occasion'
by Michael Safi from Science | The Guardian on (#5EK4E)
Doses land in Accra as part of scheme seeking to offset vaccine nationalism'
Covax has delivered its first Covid-19 doses in a milestone for the ambitious programme that seeks to offset vaccine nationalism" by wealthy countries and ensure poor ones do not wait years to start inoculating people.
An aircraft carrying 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine landed in Accra, the capital of Ghana, on Wednesday, where jabs will be administered to frontline health workers on Tuesday. Vaccine doses will arrive on Friday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and will be given from Monday.
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