A health worker in medical dress stands inside a makeshift vaccination room at Tanah Abang Market, Central Jakarta on Feb 17,2021 (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
BY: THE JAKARTA GLOBE
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Jakarta. The UK government verified on Friday its commitment to share the majority of any future surplus coronavirus vaccines with the COVAX procurement pool to support developing countries, highly likely will include Indonesia.
The announcement came ahead of the G7 Summit chaired by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The UK decision to donate most of any future vaccine surplus to establishing nations through COVAX is big, great news, British Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste, Owen Jenkins said in a statement.
Indonesia is one of the 92 countries qualified for vaccines under COVAX, so is most likely to be among the nations that benefits from this kindness, he included.
This comes on top of the UK s huge donation to GAVI – ₤548 million among the biggest donors, and 1/5th of the overall funds raised, he said.
Now, as the very first country to devote to sharing most of our surplus vaccines through COVAX, this news demonstrate how the UK is a force for excellent in the world demonstrating how we must tackle this pandemic with a spirit of togetherness and through our shared multilateral organizations, Jenkins added.
G7 leaders are expected to talk about contribution of coronavirus vaccine supplies to developing countries in today s conference.
French President Emmanuel Macron informed the Financial Times he encouraged Europe and the US to send up to 5 percent of their vaccines materials to developing nations in the face of growing influence by China and Russia, which have been dispersing their vaccines throughout Asian and South American countries in current months.
” We’re not talking about billions of dosages right away, or billions and billions of euros. It’s about far more rapidly assigning 4-5% of the doses we have, Macron said.
Indonesia has actually vaccinated over 1.2 million people using China s Sinovac vaccine as of Friday. State-run pharmaceutical business Bio Farma also produced the vaccine under license from the Chinese company and began distributing it when the 2nd round of mass vaccination drive began on Wednesday.
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