Publication: Remarks at the Virtual Meeting on the Africa COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Deployment Strategy
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World Bank Group President David Malpass provided an update on the World Bank Group’s vaccination efforts. Coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a heavy toll on the people of Africa in terms of lives lost and the severe economic impact that is hitting the most vulnerable the hardest. The Group is preparing emergency vaccine financing projects in twenty-one countries in Africa. He highlighted IFC work to mobilize financing for vaccine production and therapeutics focused on developing countries. In implementing the vaccines programs, the World Bank Group is working directly with governments, including finance for their purchases from vaccine manufacturers and via COVAX, and for deployment efforts working with partners such as WHO and UNICEF. He urged the leaders of African countries to move quickly to secure vaccinations for their populations, and to avail themselves of the financing available from the World Bank Group and other partners to help with this.
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“Malpass, David. 2021. Remarks at the Virtual Meeting on the Africa COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Deployment Strategy. Speech delivered January 27, 2021;. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35078 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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