‘Pick-and-choose’ option offered to richers nations that join WHO’s Covax plan
The latest WHO plan promises to ‘negotiate the best possible pricing from manufacturers’ and to set up a ‘marketplace’ for trading or selling doses
28 August 2020 - 17:59
Geneva — Wealthier countries that join the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Covid-19 vaccine plan are being offered a new option to pick and choose which shots they get while reserving a right to receive their “full share” of doses, documents seen by Reuters show.
The change appears aimed at convincing governments that have negotiated their own bilateral deals securing experimental vaccines to also sign up for the global Covax facility by Monday's deadline for submitting expressions of interest...
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