Covid-19 | U.S. to work closely with COVAX to allocate 80 million vaccine doses

Details regarding the quantity set aside for India yet to be revealed.

The U.S. will work with the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) program as well as its partners to decide how to allocate the 80 million doses of vaccine it is sending to other countries over the next six weeks. India, which is currently the global epicentre of the pandemic, is expected to receive a significant share of these vaccines, but administration officials have not released actual numbers. “We’re looking at how we can get maximum coverage, because, I think, as all of you would agree, that demand exists everywhere,” Gayle Smith, the U.S.’s Coordinator for Global COVID Response and Health Security, said on a briefing call with reporters on Wednesday. “We’re consulting closely with COVAX, which, as you know, is the largest vaccine delivery platform in the world and that is focused on , in particular, low income and low-middle income countries and with our partners ,” she said. Ms Smith referred to COVAX as “an absolutely critical and the central platform” for vaccine allocation.