Poor, developing countries will not have access to the corona vaccine until 2024: WHO warned

World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the corona vaccine scheme for poor and developing countries will fail and that poor countries will be deprived of the corona vaccine by 2024.

A special report of Reuters has revealed that WHO’s scheme to provide vaccines to poor and developing countries has a number of shortcomings and defects. The scheme is likely to fail miserably, leaving citizens of poorer countries without coronavirus vaccine until 2024.

It should be noted that WHO had announced the launch of a global scheme called ‘Co-Vaccine’ to provide free or cheap anti-coronavirus vaccines to developing countries. The aim was to ensure the availability of vaccines to the citizens of the countries.

The WHO program initially set a target of providing two billion meals to the poorest citizens of 91 countries by the end of 2021, most of them in Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, the unavailability of funds, risk in the delivery of the vaccine and complications in the procurement process have become major obstacles to achieving this goal.

World Health Organization is looking at cheaper vaccine companies for the Kovacs scheme, but it will take about a year more to complete their clinical trials and allow the vaccine to be used, according to the document. Talks were also held with Nova Wax and Sanofi for 400 million vaccine doses.

Vaccines manufactured by Pfizer, Bio-Tech and Modern are expensive, with estimates starting at 18.40 to 19.50 US Dollar, while modern vaccines will be available at 25 to 37 US Dollar. The average cost of a vaccine dose was estimated at US$ 5.20.

In view of all this, the vaccine supply scheme announced by the WHO has failed miserably in the current situation and has led to the availability of anti-corona vaccine to poor citizens in developing and middle-income countries by 2024.