{"id":1582,"date":"2021-06-27T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/most-covax-vaccine-recipients-excluded-from-new-eu-covid-green-pass-thanks-to-unapproved-astrazeneca-jab"},"modified":"2021-06-27T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T17:19:36","slug":"most-covax-vaccine-recipients-excluded-from-new-eu-covid-green-pass-thanks-to-unapproved-astrazeneca-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/most-covax-vaccine-recipients-excluded-from-new-eu-covid-green-pass-thanks-to-unapproved-astrazeneca-jab","title":{"rendered":"Most COVAX Vaccine Recipients Excluded From New EU COVID \u2018Green Pass\u2019 \u2013 Thanks to Unapproved AstraZeneca Jab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The much-trumpeted European Union COVID Digital Green Pass, which launches 1 July and is meant to vastly ease travel to Europe for vaccinated and recovered passengers is being rolled out with one important hitch.<\/p>\n

Anyone vaccinated with an AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India would not be qualified to get the pass \u2013 and that includes most citizens of low- and middle-income countries who were immunised with vaccines distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX initiative.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the EU green pass will only recognise the Vaxzevria version of the AstraZeneca vaccine that was produced and manufactured in the United Kingdom or other sites around Europe, and thus approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).<\/p>\n

In contrast, most of the COVAX facility\u2019s global procurement and distribution was built around the \u201cCovishield\u201d AstraZeneca vaccine, produced by the Serum Institute of India. Rude shock\ufffcProportion of different vaccines distributed by the COVAX initiative \u2013 Africa CDC<\/p>\n

As of 25 June, more than 89 million vaccines have been distributed by the COVAX initiative to some 133 mostly low- and middle-income countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which is administering the massive programme.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a drop in the ocean of the more than 2.6 billion doses of COVID vaccines administered so far globally, according to WHO. But, it constitutes the majority of vaccines received in many of the world\u2019s poorest countries.<\/p>\n

According to the COVID-19 vaccination dashboard of the Africa CDC, over 90% of vaccine doses administered so far, are Covishield. Only four EU approved vaccines<\/p>\n

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Under the EU Digital COVID Certificate system, freedom will be restored to the region for individuals that have been fully vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved by EMA, in addition to individuals that have recently recovered from the virus, and those who tested negative.<\/p>\n

While WHO has opposed issuing COVID passports at all, a key practical bone of contention emerging is the non-inclusion of Covishield and other WHO-approved vaccines on the list of EMA-approved products that can be considered for the EU digital green pass.<\/p>\n

When Health Policy Watch searched for Covishield on EMA\u2019s website, there was no record of the vaccine even though Vaxzevria, the version produced in Europe, is listed.<\/p>\n

Traveller information issued by the authorities of the \u201cSchenghen Zone\u201d which includes EU countries plus several other non-EU European states like Norway and Switzerland, also clearly states: \u201cAs the Member States reopen the borders for travel from non-EU countries for non-essential purposes, they also intend to issue EU COVID travel certificates to travellers from third countries intending to enter their territory. The Commission also intends to accept certificates issued in third countries, which are issued under the same conditions as the ones by the EU\u2026.In order for the traveller to be able to get the vaccine, he\/she should be vaccinated with one of the EU-approved vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n

The advice adds, however, a caveat stating that individual: \u201cMember States, can, however, issue the certificate even to those who have been vaccinated with other vaccines if they are willing to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, only four vaccines have been authorised by the EMA, and they are Comirnaty? (BioNTech, Pfizer), Moderna?, Vaxzevria ? (previously COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca) and Janssen? (Johnson & Johnson).<\/p>\n

Covishield is not even listed among the vaccines that are under review by the agency which has listed CVnCoV? (CureVac), NVX-CoV2373? (Novavax), Sputnik V ?(Gam-COVID-Vac), COVID-19 Vaccine? (Vero Cell) and CoronaVac ?(Sinovac).<\/p>\n

Even though the passport regime is expected to go into effect next week, more than ten countries in the region, including Germany, Greece and Spain are already issuing the green digital pass. Second Class COVID Travellers \ufffc<\/p>\n

The double standard of EU recognition for identical AstraZeneca vaccines is beginning to send ripples across the African continent and African media \u2013 stimulating anger as well as stoking vaccine hesitancy, as reported by the French media channel, RFI.fr this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the [AstraZeneca] vaccine was received, representatives of the international community were present at Ivato airport in Antananarivo, including representatives of the European Union, to encourage people to be vaccinated,\u201d said Em\u00e9e Ratsimbazafy, vice-president of a Madagascar civil society association, told RFI.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then, all of a sudden, we learn that this vaccine is not recognised by the European health authorities. Why not? Many people are now wondering if this vaccine is really harmless and effective. Some people are now reluctant to be vaccinated,\u201d he said, noting that the dual standard has raised fears that the COVAX vaccines are of inferior quality.<\/p>\n

Madagascar\u2019s Minister of Health, Professor Jean-Louis Rakotovao-Hanitrala, said he was \u201csurprised and shocked\u201d to learn that the vaccines being distributed wouldn\u2019t be accepted in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis vaccine was given to us by the WHO and welcomed by the European Union and all the UN agencies,\u201d he was quoted as saying. That , he said \u201cmakes us wonder if there is not one vaccine for Africans and another for Europeans\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the other side of the continent, Nigerian health experts are also worried that the EU policy may stimulate more vaccine hesitancy \u2013 threatening the delicately built trust in the vaccine that is most widely available.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething is definitely fishy somewhere. We need these people to come clean and tell us what is happening. My parents received this vaccine. Should we be worried?\u201d one Nigerian woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told Health Policy Watch.<\/p>\n

African countries do not have luxury of choices like European countries have and as such they need to continue to build acceptance around Covishield, stressed Oyewale Tomori, a Nigerian professor of virology and chairman of Nigeria\u2019s Ministerial Expert Advisory committee on COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the vaccine that we have and we will continue to encourage our people to take while ensuring that we do not find ourselves again at the mercy of the rest of the world in future pandemics,\u201d Tomori told Health Policy Watch.<\/p>\n

WHO Officials \u2013 Protest in Africa, Silent In Geneva\ufffcWHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti speaking about the EU COVID Green Pass at Thursday\u2019s Regional press briefing, WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti speaking about the EU COVID Green Pass at Thursday\u2019s Regional press briefing,<\/p>\n

At Thursday\u2019s Africa Regional press briefing, WHO\u2019s Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, protested the double standard, telling reporters that the European green pass programme should recognize all eight vaccines that have been approved by the WHO, which include the AstraZeneca vaccines produced in India, as well as two Chinese-made vaccines, rather than only those that are EU approved.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncreasingly proof of vaccination permits the removal of travel restrictions, and even if it is important to secure the frontiers and prevent the propagation of the virus, African\u2019s shouldn\u2019t be subject to any more restrictions because they can\u2019t access a particular vaccine,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly four of the eight vaccines recognised by the WHO are recognised by the European Medicines Agency for the digital passport system put in place by the European Union. We hope that all countries will respect the principles of the International Health Regulations, and see to it that all vaccines are approved by the WHO and are accessible to everyone, before they can become a prerequisite for travel,\u201d she sai.<\/p>\n

Moeti said the WHO and EMA use the same standards in assessing vaccines. \u201cThe safety and efficacy of all WHO emergency use listed vaccines has been proven globally in preventing severe COVID-19 illness and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Richard Mihigo, African regional director for immunisation and vaccines development: \u201cActually, WHO is in the process of working with the European Union so that there can be a harmonisation and a recognition by all of the EU members, for all of the products that were approved by the WHO, in a general manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat people have to understand is that the EMA only approves products that are being used in the EU. For those [vaccines] not being used by the EU, they are not even submitted for approval to the EMA, and that is the case for AstraZeneca CoviShield, being produced by the Serum Institute of India, which was from the beginning intended to fulfil the needs for a segment of the market \u2013 the COVAX countries.<\/p>\n

Mihigo stressed that there was \u201cno ambiguity about the quality of this vaccine produced in India\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s strictly an administrative process, which has nothing to do with the quality of the AZ vaccine, which is being produced in several countries in Europe, the United States, India, and South Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Geneva\u2019s headquarters, however, WHO officials speaking at a Friday press conference made no reference to the EU conundrum \u2013 despite protesting, in principle, the fact that COVID passports are being used at all in travel \u2013 when access remains so limited in many countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWHO should not be recommending a requirement for vaccination as a condition of travel,\u201d declared Michael Ryan, executive director of health emergencies, \u201cand that is particularly related to the scarcity of vaccines and the fact that there is such an inequity of distribution of those vaccines \u2013 plus uncertainties regarding the extent to which vaccination prevents infection, or transmission of the disease\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny imposition of such a requirement for vaccination, around the world does, in effect, deliver a double inequality as individuals from countries who have no access to vaccines will then have no access to travel, and therefore it is very important that if we\u2019re going to impose restrictions on the travel of individuals, we must at least attempt to do that from a level playing field of having access to vaccine,\u201d Ryan added.<\/p>\n

A Health Policy Watch request to WHO\/HQ for comment regarding the exclusion of the Serum Institute version of the AZ vaccine from the EU green pass received no response, as of press time. Source: HealthPolicy Watch News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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