Low-income nations could be without a coronavirus vaccine until 2024, report says The World Health Organization’s COVAX program is the primary global scheme to vaccinate people in poor and middle-income countries around the world against the coronavirus.
COVAX has thus far raised $2.1 billion and says it needs an additional $4.9 billion to meet its target of vaccinating at least 20 per cent of the people in poor countries next year.
The program is also receiving funds from private donors, most notably the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.We have heard the rhetoric about COVID-19 being the “great equalizer” that discriminates no one and plagues us all.