Less than a year after it was first unveiled as a plan to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the first shipments landed in a participating country today, with Ghana receiving its first doses.In other developments, global COVID-19 cases fell for the sixth week in a row, though a few countries reported increasing activity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly situation report.First wave of deliveries beginsThe WHO said in a statement today that 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine arrived in Ghana, with more deliveries slated this week for Ivory Coast.
The vaccine, recently listed for emergency use by the WHO, was produced by the Serum Institute of India. The final first round of COVAX