Covax

The global scheme has supplied vaccines against the coronavirus to 144 countries since February 2021. But vaccine inequity remains high, with 40% of the world population yet to receive a single jab. The UN-led COVAX scheme...

Venezuela received more than 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccinations from the COVAX program on Sunday, bringing the country closer to its target of vaccinating 70% of the population. On Sunday, Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado...

Covax, a vaccine-sharing organization, said on Wednesday that it expects to be able to distribute Covid vaccines to little more than 20% of individuals in impoverished nations this year, significantly fewer than expected. Covax admitted that...

As a gift from China, a Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) aircraft has returned with 300,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid vaccination and medical equipment. According to a media announcement, a C-130J transport plane carrying the vaccination landed...

Another batch of 1.77 million doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine has arrived in Dhaka through the Covax facility. At 7:50 p.m. on Wednesday, the Biman flight carrying the vaccination doses arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International...

Today, Bangladesh will receive 7,81,320 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the second consignment of more than three million doses of such vaccines pledged by Japan under the COVAX framework. According to the Bangladesh Embassy in Tokyo,...

The World Bank and the COVAX global vaccine distribution program revealed a finance option on Monday to speed up the delivery of doses to developing countries, where Covid-19 immunization rates trail substantially behind those of wealthier...

Bangladesh is set to receive 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine under Covax facilities within the next 7-10 days. Health Minister Zahid Maleque confirmed the matter to DBC, a national television channel, on Friday. He...

President Joe Biden outlined his plan Thursday for the first of 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses that the US will distribute globally before July, with 75 percent of shots disbursed via the Covax program. In a...

The Covax global vaccine-sharing programme said Thursday it needs $2.0 billion in additional funding by the beginning of June in order to boost coronavirus inoculation programmes in lower-income countries. “We need an additional $2 billion to...