On the 15th (local time), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who received the first COVID-19 vaccine in Canada, is looking at the vaccine with Health Minister Patty Huidu. Reuters = Yonhap News
– Canada, which has secured 190 million doses of vaccine for novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), announced that it will donate the remaining vaccine. The vaccine secured by Canada is enough to be vaccinated five times per citizen.
Reuters reported on the 18th (local time) that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a Canadian CTV interview on the 20th, “If you have more vaccines than you need after getting vaccinated in Canada, we will definitely share them with the world.” . However, it did not disclose how to share or donate.
Earlier in November, Reuters reported that Canada is discussing ways to donate vaccines to low-income countries. However, the Canadian government has not yet made an open commitment.
Meanwhile, unlike Korea, the US, EU, and Japan have secured vaccines that exceed the number of their own population. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s’Vaccine Securing Trends by Overseas Country’ document obtained by Kang Ki-yoon’s Office of the People’s Power, the US was 2.4 billion doses, EU 1.1 billion doses, UK 380 million doses, Canada 190 million doses, Japan 530 million We secured ten thousand ash. As most vaccines are given twice, even half of the secured amount exceeds the number of domestic populations.
UN Secretary-General Antonius Guthechs recently appealed to these countries, saying, “We ask that rich countries not stock up on the COVID-19 vaccine, but rather support the poor countries to buy the vaccine.”
Korea has prepared a plan to secure a vaccine for 44 million people as of the 18th. The plan is to secure 10 million people through Cobax Facility (a joint purchase method through WHO) and 34 million people through individual companies. Of these, only 10 million AstraZeneca contracts have been finalized.
Reporter Seok-Hyun Ko [email protected]
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