{"id":37956,"date":"2021-10-13T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/13\/local-covid-vaccines-fill-gap-as-un-covax-scheme-misses-target"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:00:13","slug":"local-covid-vaccines-fill-gap-as-un-covax-scheme-misses-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37956","title":{"rendered":"Local Covid vaccines fill gap as UN Covax scheme misses target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind <\/p>\n<p>Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/covax-facility#what\">Covax<\/a> programme falls behind.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/aug\/13\/covid-booster-jabs-for-rich-countries-will-cause-more-deaths-worldwide-say-experts\">western countries roll out booster jabs<\/a> to their own populations, Covax, which was set up by UN agencies, governments and donors to ensure fair access to Covid-19 vaccines for low- and middle-income countries, has said it will miss its target to distribute 2bn doses globally by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/oct\/13\/local-covid-vaccines-fill-gap-as-un-covax-scheme-misses-target\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,246,41,1640,918,452,6,50,1066,403,221,1448,530,59,346,62,156,914,512,916,212,1240,647,398,299,783,79,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-astrazeneca","category-biology","category-brazil","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-egypt","category-europe","category-european-commission","category-european-union","category-global-development","category-health","category-india","category-indonesia","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-morocco","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-saudi-arabia","category-science","category-singapore","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37971,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions\/37971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}