SA makes R283m Covax payment
The Solidarity Fund has made the down payment to secure SA’s entry into the WHO’s Covax vaccine programme
SA has secured its entry into the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Covax scheme that aims to ensure that low- and middle-income countries are able to access Covid-19 vaccines, with its failure to meet previous payment deadlines having raised concern that the country would be left behind.
The health department said on Tuesday that the Solidarity Fund had made a R283m ($19.2m) down payment to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations (Gavi), an international alliance responsible for administering the programme. SA has been the hardest hit country in Africa, and so far has had more than 931,000 Covid-19 infections and 24,907 deaths, with the economy set to shrink in 2020 by the most in about a century...
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