The World Health Organization's global vaccine sharing scheme COVAX has delivered its first Covid-19 shots, as the race to get doses to the world's poorest people accelerates.
A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed in Ghana's capital Accra, the WHO and UNICEF, said in a joint statement.
The delivery comes almost a year after the WHO first described the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic and eight months after the launch of the COVAX initiative, aimed at pooling funds from wealthier countries and non-profits to develop a vaccine and distribute it equitably around the world.