The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in India, here in Bombay. – Rajanish kakade
Countries which are found particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, but also in Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia, in particular India’s neighbors such as Nepal or Sri Lanka… All have to face a severe wave of infections but are unable to administer the second dose of anti-Covid vaccines, for lack of sufficient doses, which risks permanently destabilizing the vaccine campaigns, warned the WHO on Friday.
“We have a huge number of countries that have had to suspend their vaccination campaign for the second dose – 30 or 40 countries – which could receive second doses of AstraZeneca for example and which are not able to do so,” said Dr Bruce Aylward, responsible at the WHO for overseeing the Covax international distribution system. The interval (between the two injections) is now longer than we would like. “
Most of the billion doses promised by the G7 available in 2022
While too long an interval between two doses may facilitate the emergence of more dangerous or contagious variants, Covax partners are trying to access maximum doses which are crucial for the period from June to September. Bruce Aylward noted that the United States had promised 80 million doses for the period June-July, but the bulk of the billion doses promised by the G7 will not be available until later in the year and especially in 2022.
“Donations are a short-term solution to a very imperfect market where only countries which have the means or produce vaccines have access to them”, recalled the WHO. Doctor Aylward stressed the deleterious effect of these blows on the confidence of populations in vaccination: “When we force countries with less robust systems to interrupt, reorganize, redirect their program, we make it very difficult mobilization of the population. “
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As of June 17, the Covax system had delivered just 88 million doses to 131 countries, well below what was originally planned.