COVAX is an international initiative that will supply more than 140 countries with vaccines by the end of May. Among them are 89 developing countries whose vaccines are financed by international donors.
Within this framework,
COVAX will distribute more than 3 billion doses this year.
According to its
Embassy in Peru, Germany is the largest donor to COVAX, with €1.2 billion. One in five Euros invested in
COVAX comes from Germany and one in three from the European Union.
"Why are we doing this? Because we won't be safe until everyone is safe. In a war of distribution of ‘all against all’, Germany and the EU, with our production capacities, would perhaps win in the short term, but at the cost of the pandemic continuing to spread uncontrollably in the rest of the world," its
Lima-based Embassy posted on Facebook.
Thus, "our goal is to ensure that everyone around the world can receive the vaccine they need; this is what we mean when we say that the COVID-19 vaccine should be a global public good."
Peru will receive more vaccines through COVAX in the coming months, it concluded.