Guyana continues to benefit from free vaccines from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX), a programme that provides free vaccines to 92 countries worldwide.
Guyana’s Health Minister, Dr Frank Anthony said the distribution programme is helping, especially the developing countries to meet their vaccination targets. To date, Guyana has received over 305, 000 doses of vaccines, which have allowed the vaccination of 152, 000 persons.
“Guyana has always been in the COVAX AMC component which meant that Guyana gets its vaccines through COVAX, free of cost. We have been working with them. Initially, when COVAX first started, they were looking at vaccines to all countries participating to about 10 per cent of their population, and at that time in the early stages, the priority was to give to older people and to frontline workers,” Dr. Anthony said on Tuesday.
Guyana’s Health Minister said COVAX has since revised those targets to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mandate of ensuring that at least 40 per cent of countries’ population is fully vaccinated by December of 2021.
