WHO faces $11.5bn cash crunch as Delta variant surges

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Donor nations are bypassing the world health body’s Covid-19 programme, leaving poorer countries short of vaccines and oxygen

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Picture: REUTERS/FABRICE COFFRINI

The paper, which is still subject to changes, outlines the results and financial needs of the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator , the programme co-led by the WHO to distribute Covid-19 vaccines, drugs and tests across the world fairly. The document also calls for a further $3.8bn, on top of the $7.7bn, to take up options for 760-million doses of Covid-19 vaccines that would be delivered in 2022.

The vaccine portion of the project, called Covax, is increasingly reliant on donations from wealthy nations, rather than its own supplies, after key manufacturer India restricted exports of shots to boost domestic vaccinations. The plea for cash comes as a review of the ACT-A is under way, with France, Germany and Canada among the countries steering the process. A report on the programme's results and shortcomings is expected in September by consultancy Dalberg Global Development Advisers, the ACT-A official said.Among ACT-A’s immediate needs are $1.2bn for oxygen to treat seriously ill Covid-19 patients in poorer countries where supplies are low, the report says.

Oxygen is needed to “control the exponential death surges caused by the Delta variant”, the document says.

 

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