外媒：世卫组织批准国药新冠疫苗对发展中国家至关重要
全球疫苗免疫联盟(GAVI)的发言人5月11日表示，GAVI正在与包括中国国药在内的疫苗厂商洽谈，以扩大疫苗供应和发放。
世界卫生组织5月7日批准中国国药新冠疫苗用于紧急使用，为推动中国在全球新冠疫苗接种方面发挥了重要作用。
The Gavi Vaccine Alliance is in talks with COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers including China’s state-owned Sinopharm to expand the COVAX pipeline and secure doses for distribution, a Gavi spokeswoman said Monday.
Sinopharm received emergency use listing from the World Health Organization (WHO) last Friday, making it eligible for the COVAX programme and bolstering Beijing’s push for a bigger role in inoculating the world.
据英国《卫报》5月7日报道，多名专家表示，世卫组织批准中国国药新冠疫苗用于紧急使用对于发展中国家尤其重要。
日内瓦高级国际关系及发展学院“全球健康项目”负责人Suerie Moon表示，“如果获批，这些疫苗将使‘新冠肺炎疫苗实施计划’疫苗供应量大幅增长。”
Experts said today’s decision by the world’s top public health authority could be a gamechanger, especially for developing countries.
“If there is a green light, these vaccines could boost the thin stream of supplies that has been channelled through Covax to date,” Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Programme at Geneva’s Graduate Institute, told the Associated Press news agency.
The Department of Health (Philippines), will apply for an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the BBIPB-CorVac vaccine of Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm (China National Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd.) which was given an emergency use listing by the World Health Organization over the weekend.
The World Health Organization’s approval of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine is in line with Zimbabwean scientists’ recommendations which guided the country into rolling the lifesaving vaccination in early February using this Chinese vaccine. Experts say the WHO approval of the vaccine is likely to push up vaccination figures in Zimbabwe.
The Asian giant is in the lead in terms of being able to manufacture vaccines within its territory and make them penetrate everywhere in the world for everyone.
The ability of China to be in the Covax facility has given the country room to introduce its vaccines to everyone. China has from the start targeted the low and middle income countries which are in the global south. These countries were left behind as the global north scooped most of the pricey vaccines.
The Asian giant has made huge donations to many African countries, for example Zimbabwe received more than half a million Sinopharm vaccines from the People’s Republic of China.
As Latin America struggles against a deadly third wave of the pandemic, China has shipped more than half of the 143.5m doses of vaccines delivered to the region’s 10 most populous nations, according to a Financial Times analysis of data provided by governments.
“There are more Chinese jabs in arms in Latin America and in some other developing nations,” said Clare Wenham, assistant professor of global health policy at the London School of Economics. “This mirrors trends in global health, where we are seeing increased Chinese dominance as a health power.”