At the meeting of the COVAX program (Global Fund for Access to Vaccines against COVID-19, established jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), held on the beginning of March, 2021 in Geneva, the participants agreed, that Pakistan, Nigeria and Indonesia will be among the biggest recipients of free Covid-19 vaccines before June 2021 — more than 10 million doses will get each abovementioned country.
Some 238.2 million doses will be distributed around the world by the end of May, in a major acceleration of the programme aimed at boosting access to coronavirus jabs in poorer nations.
As per WHO statement — providing vaccines to all countries is the only way out of the pandemic. The Covax scheme, which is aimed at ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, on Tuesday outlined delivery plans for hundreds of millions of doses.
The five biggest confirmed recipients are Pakistan (14,640,000), Nigeria (13,656,000), Indonesia (11,704,800), Bangladesh (10,908,000) and Brazil (9,122,400).
They are followed by Ethiopia (7,620,000), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5,928,000), Mexico (5,532,000), Egypt (4,389,600) and Vietnam (4,176,000). Iran, Myanmar, Kenya and Uganda are also in line for more than three million doses each.
The biggest recipient of Covax doses is India, but its quota was not finalized yet.