Countries donating Covid vaccines must give "better quality" doses rather than ones that are about to expire, a Covax chief said Wednesday after the scheme notched a new delivery record.
The Covax facility was set up by the World Health Organization, Gavi the Vaccine Alliance and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to ensure that poorer countries can access vaccines. "Covax has had its busiest ever day of deliveries, with over 11 million doses shipped in 24 hours," Gavi chief executive Seth Berkley tweeted.
The record was broken on Monday with the shipment of 11,386,090 doses to six countries, a Gavi spokesman told AFP. Covax has faced difficulty purchasing doses because of export problems, as well as wealthy nations hogging