France to allocate more than 5% of its COVID vaccines to WHO-backed COVAX programme

[May 11, 2021]    PARIS (Reuters) - France will allocate more than 5% of its COVID-19 vaccine doses to the COVAX programme backed by the World Health Organisation, by the end of this year, said a French health ministry official.

A medical worker prepares a dose of the "Comirnaty" Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine inside the exhibition palace transformed into a vaccination center in Nice as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign in France, April 29, 2021. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

(Reporting by Matthias Blamont; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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