Canada pledges 200 million doses of coronavirus vaccine by end of 2022

The Canadian government made a commitment on Saturday at the G20 summit deliver millions of doses Additional vaccines in poor countries to fight the global pandemic of covid-19.

“Canada will donate the equivalent of at least 200 million doses to the Covax mechanism by the end of 2022,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement.

Of this amount, 10 million doses of Moderna vaccine will be offered “quickly” to developing countries, an “immediate” commitment that the Canadian government claims to assume.

Coordinated by the Alliance for Vaccines and the World Health Organization (WHO), Covax system targets 92 disadvantaged states and territories to receive free vaccines funded by the most prosperous nations.

Canada also pledged “$ 15 million to help increase vaccine production in South Africa,” Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told a press conference in Rome .

The money will be used to create a “technology transfer center” in the region to produce messenger RNA vaccines against covid-19.

“We do not control the production, but by 2022 we are convinced that it will be possible to contribute at this level,” confirmed Freeland, calling Canada’s commitment “sincere” and “very important”.

In August, the American company Moderna has announced plans to build a vaccine manufacturing plant in Canada, the first outside the United States.

According to the Canadian government, the Covax program had received less than three million of the 40 million doses already committed by Canada on Saturday, and additional deliveries are expected “in the next few days”.