Canada doubles dollar contribution to COVAX alliance — but still isn’t sharing doses – CBC

Ottawa’s contribution to alliance to help deliver vaccines to low, middle-income countries is $440M

Jun 02, 2021

Canada is doubling its direct cash commitment to help buy COVID-19 vaccines for the global sharing program known as COVAX — but it isn’t sending any actual doses this month, despite a desperate plea from officials for help.

International Development Minister Karina Gould told a virtual COVAX summit on Wednesday that Canada will donate another $220 million to help COVAX buy more vaccines to deliver to the 92 low and middle-income countries that rely on the facility to vaccinate their citizens.

That’s on top of $220 million committed last September to buy doses for lower income nations through the COVAX Advance Market Commitment, $75 million to help get those doses delivered and $30 million reallocated to COVAX from a separate vaccine program for pneumococcal disease.

“These vaccines are our best exit strategy from this pandemic,” Gould said in a speech at the summit.

Canada doubles dollar contribution to COVAX alliance — but still isn’t sharing doses – CBC

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