Re-allocate One Billion COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to LMICs, Panel Co-Chairs Appeal to UN Member States

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A billion COVID-19 vaccine doses should be reallocated from high-income countries to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by September, and of another billion by mid-next year, former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, told United Nations member states on Wednesday.

The pair, who co-chaired the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response which evaluated the global COVID-19 response, were briefing an informal UN plenary meeting on their findings and recommendations.

These include that a Global Health Threats Council is established, the World Health Organization (WHO) is strengthened and empowered, and a pandemic treaty is adopted to guide future pandemics.

“While in some places, vaccines are blunting the worst of COVID-19’s impact, for too many countries, supplies are so limited, and prospects for access pushed so far into the future, that hope is turning to despair,” Sirleaf told the meeting.

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