Maldives have received 100,000 syringes for COVID-19 vaccines to the Maldives in preparation for COVAX vaccine rollout.
The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF has said that the 100,000 syringes and 1,000 safety boxes for vaccine storage were sent to the Maldives in preparation for the first deliveries of Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots under the COVAX vaccine-sharing plan.
The vaccine rollout program in the Maldives kicked off on February 01, with the Covishield vaccine donated by the Indian government. The Covishield is based on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. In addition to this, Maldives is expected to receive Covid-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility.
The COVAX facility - co-led by the World Health Organization, the GAVI vaccine alliance, and others - earlier this month allocated around 330 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for poorer countries. It aims to deliver these and millions more in the first half of 2021.
The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF has said that the 100,000 syringes and 1,000 safety boxes for vaccine storage were sent to the Maldives in preparation for the first deliveries of Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots under the COVAX vaccine-sharing plan.
The vaccine rollout program in the Maldives kicked off on February 01, with the Covishield vaccine donated by the Indian government. The Covishield is based on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. In addition to this, Maldives is expected to receive Covid-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility.
The COVAX facility - co-led by the World Health Organization, the GAVI vaccine alliance, and others - earlier this month allocated around 330 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for poorer countries. It aims to deliver these and millions more in the first half of 2021.
