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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Covax aims to break the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022 by ensuring a steady supply of vaccines at last for the world’s poorest countries — and swiftly getting them into arms.<\/p>\n

The global scheme, aimed at procuring donor-funded jabs for the 91 weakest economies, delivered its one billionth dose last weekend — a major milestone that came far later than anticipated after a year of setbacks.<\/p>\n

The battle for Covax in 2021 was getting hold of doses — besides rich countries cornering most of the vaccine supply, it faced export bans from producer countries, regulatory red tape and manufacturing delays.<\/p>\n

Rather than bulk-bought jabs, the scheme ended up relying on doses donated by wealthy nations, which too often were about to expire and couldn’t be used in time.<\/p>\n

Covax sees the new front in 2022 as smoothing the supply chain — from a reliable stream off the production lines to efficient distribution set-ups in recipient countries.<\/p>\n

The facility is co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO); the Gavi vaccine alliance, which handles procurement; and CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which invests in prospective vaccines.<\/p>\n

‘Inequity 2.0’ fear<\/p>\n

Covax this week called for $5.2 billion over the next three months to steady the ship this year.<\/p>\n

“We can break the cycle of transmission and the pain and suffering,” Gavi chief Seth Berkley told the funding drive launch.<\/p>\n

However, “what we do not have today are the resources to help countries adapt to the new challenges that we know Covid-19 will create in 2022”.<\/p>\n

Covax therefore wants to build a pool of 600 million doses to ensure a reliable supply, and to cover eventual variables such as boosters or new variant-specific vaccines.<\/p>\n

It also needs to support readiness and delivery in poorer nations, and cover the costs of syringes and transportation.<\/p>\n

“I think we’ll still have rocky supply for the next six months or so and I’m a little worried, frankly, if there are new variant vaccines, that we might have an inequity 2.0,” said Berkley.<\/p>\n

Covax reckons it has enough confirmed vaccine supplies to jab 45 percent of the population in the poorest 91 economies.<\/p>\n

But the WHO wants 70 percent fully jabbed in every country by July to end the acute phase of the pandemic — a much bigger stretch, given how far behind many countries are, especially in Africa, where more than 85 percent of people are yet to receive a single dose.<\/p>\n

At the current pace of vaccine roll-out, 109 countries will miss the mid-2022 target, the WHO has said.<\/p>\n

‘Back on track’<\/p>\n

Covax was launched in June 2020, when few would have imagined that several highly effective vaccines would emerge within nine months. Historically, the vast majority of potential vaccines fail.<\/p>\n

The first Covax doses were administered in March 2021, “but then we hit barrier after barrier”, said Berkley.<\/p>\n

“We were able to get this back on track — and now you’re seeing an accelerated drive towards getting vaccines out.”<\/p>\n

The next billion doses is expected to take four to five months to deliver.<\/p>\n

Of the billion doses delivered so far, around 285 million were AstraZeneca, 260 million Pfizer, 150 million Moderna, 125 million Janssen, 95 million Sinopharm and 85 million Sinovac.<\/p>\n

Only WHO-approved vaccines can be used, of which there are eight so far. The latest is a major CEPI-funded vaccine, Novavax, which could do much of the heavy lifting in 2022.<\/p>\n

Jabs for all ‘achievable’<\/p>\n

CEPI chief executive Richard Hatchett said the target was now building capacity in poorer countries to roll out mass vaccination at speed.<\/p>\n

“The last mile is going to be the major challenge for 2022,” he told a World Economic Forum session.<\/p>\n

Up to 25 countries need particular help getting their vaccination programme in shape.<\/p>\n

Overall, some 9.8 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered around the world. Covax jabs account for 82 percent of injections in the 91 poorest economies.<\/p>\n

The top Covax donor-funded dose recipients so far are Bangladesh with 130 million, Indonesia 87 million, Pakistan 77 million and the Philippines 66 million.<\/p>\n

Hatchett said that with the manufacturing capacity now available, helping poorer countries turn those doses into vaccinations could transform the course of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Whether primary vaccination or a booster, getting a jab to everyone who wants one “is an achievable goal in 2022”, he insisted.<\/p>\n

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