Gavi and COVAX partners are additionally calling for an end to export bans, support for technology transfers and for public and private donors to fully finance the Gavi COVAX AMC with an additional US$2 billion by June 2nd for a total ask of US$8.3 billion to secure 1.8 billion doses. Dose-sharing is one of the fastest ways to get vaccines to countries and can help respond to a dire global need. Additional allocations will be announced as and when COVAX publishes new allocation rounds.Ī number of other countries have announced pledges to share doses with lower-income economies through COVAX or in coordination with COVAX: Team Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden), the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America. These doses are entirely funded by New Zealand, including incidentals, with deliveries beginning in the coming months. Geneva, 1 June 2021 – Following a 15 April pledge by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to share doses with COVAX, the Government of New Zealand has today announced the signing of an agreement to transfer its allocation of AstraZeneca doses to lower-income economies eligible for support under the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (Gavi COVAX AMC).Īs part of a transfer of 1.6 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine over 2021, an initial allocation of 211,200 has been made by the COVAX Joint Allocation Taskforce to six countries – Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga and Tuvalu. This dose-transfer announcement is an immediate response to the challenge of global supply constraints – specifically, providing second doses to a number of countries that have rolled out COVAX doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.These doses, entirely funded by New Zealand, will go to a number of low- and middle-income countries, with the first 211,200 allocated to six economies in the Pacific region: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga and Tuvalu.Responding to an urgent need for doses around the world, the Government of New Zealand has pledged to transfer 1.6 million doses allocated through COVAX to lower-income economies.

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