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Posted on 05/04/2021 5:48:09 AM PDT by rajesh0540

Moderna, a U.S. biotech corporation, will supply up to 500 million doses for the United Nations-backed initiative to ship coronavirus vaccines to vulnerable citizens in low- and middle-income countries, but shipments will not begin until the fourth quarter, according to the company and programme officials.

The Vaccine Alliance's advance procurement arrangement comes only days after the World Health Organization declared emergency acceptance of the Moderna vaccine, paving the way for its incorporation in the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative.

Gavi, a Geneva-based public-private partnership, has been scrambling to negotiate agreements with vaccine manufacturers while still persuading wealthy countries who have secured millions of doses — half of which they aren't even using — to donate them to developing countries.

Also on Monday, the alliance reported that the Swedish government had agreed to donate 1 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine “to assist COVAX in addressing immediate-term delivery delays.”

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