The COVAX Facility's global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for low- and middle-income nations finally launched on Wednesday with the delivery of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford's shot to Ghana's capital Accra.
The organizations that co-lead COVAX — Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, World Health Organization and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI — are working with drugmakers to protect vulnerable groups in the first half of 2021. They aim to distribute at least 2 billion doses globally by the end of the year.
