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all 190 countries have joined COVAX, launched last April with the
goal of ensuring equitable access to vaccines during the pandemic.
The GAVI alliance, World Health Organization, Coalition for Epidemic
Preparedness Innovations and the U.N. Children's Fund will publish
its "interim distribution forecast" at 1300 GMT, GAVI said.
GAVI CEO Seth Berkley said last week that COVAX aimed to deliver 2.3
billion doses by year-end, including 1.8 billion to lower income
countries at no cost to their governments.
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UNICEF, the largest single buyer of vaccines in the world, expects a
"crush" of demand in the first half of the year, with supplies only
loosening in the second, its executive director Henrietta Fore said
on Friday.
A vaccine crisis has flared in some areas, coming to a head with
export controls announced by the European Union which followed news
that AstraZeneca would cut its supply of doses to the bloc until
March due to production problems.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Toby Chopra and John
Stonestreet)
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