Israel will donate one million AstraZeneca vaccines to African countries through the COVAX mechanism of the World Health Organization (WHO), in order to contribute to the global effort to “inoculate populations that do not have access to the vaccine”, announced the Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
“As long as coronavirus vaccines are not distributed worldwide to defeat the pandemic, new variants will develop in areas where vaccination rates are low,” he added.
The injections will be sent to COVAX in the coming weeks to be destined for African countries, said a Foreign Ministry spokesman, who did not detail which specific states will receive them, but assured that he expects the doses to be for “about a fourth part of the countries of the continent “, which” will help to strengthen its ties “with Israel.
“In recent months, Israel has strengthened its relations with the countries of the African continent” after its recent return in July to the status of observer state of the African Union (AU).
Israel has been one of the countries that vaccinated a large part of its population the fastest, since the summer it has applied a third booster dose – which it administered to 4.1 of its 9.3 million inhabitants – and is now debating whether to start a future campaign for the inoculation of the fourth injection.
In turn, the country closed its borders to foreign tourists at the end of November to contain the expansion of the new omicron variant, a measure that was in force until December 22 and that today the Government extended again until December 29. . (I)
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