MONTREAL, Oct 31 — Canada yesterday pledged at the G20 summit to donate millions more Covid vaccine doses to poor countries worldwide. “Canada will donate the equivalent of at least 200 million doses to the COVAX Facility by the end of 2022,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement,...
MONTREAL, Oct 31 — Canada yesterday pledged at the G20 summit to donate millions more Covid vaccine doses to poor countries worldwide.
Of this number, 10 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine will be delivered “quickly” to developing countries, he said. Those funds should contribute to the creation of a “technology transfer center” so that the region can produce messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19.
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