G20 summit: Canada to donate 200M doses of COVID-19 vaccine by end of 2022, Freeland says | FULL

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday at the G20 summit in Rome that Canada is donating 10 million Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer nations through the COVAX vaccine sharing facility and that Canada's total contribution will be 200 million vaccine doses by the end of 2022.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the donation earlier during the G20 leaders’ summit.

Canada is also donating $15 million to help make mRNA vaccines in Africa.

The country also intends to increase its financial support to COVAX to buy another 63 million doses itself.

Vaccine equity is a big issue on the table at the summit, with warnings from the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization, among others, that inequitable distribution of vaccines will postpone the global economic recovery and make it very uneven.

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