WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus celebrated this quintaBrazil, Thursday (23), donated 10 million doses of vaccine against COVID-19 to the COVID-19 Facility Consortium. Adhanom said on Twitter that the measure would “accelerate the end of the epidemic”.
The Minister of Health, Marcelo Quiroga, responded to Mail From Adhanom stated that there will be no safety against covid-19 unless everyone is safe.
Brazil is very pleased to contribute to the Covax facility, as it joins the global covid-19 vaccination effort. “We will only be safe when we are all safe,” he said.
Very pleased to see announced #covid19 Donations of vaccines to countries in need, including by #COVAX. #VaccinEquity It will speed up the end of the epidemic. Minister of Health Obrigado @mqueiroga2 And Tweet embed Minister Carlos France! https://t.co/HeXIVGmoXh
– Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) December 22 2021
This action was announced on MondayThursday (20) by Queiroga. The minister stated at the time that in addition to the initial ten million doses, another 20 million doses can be donated at a later time, that is, at least 30 million units of the vaccine. Effective donation depends on expressions of interest and consent to receive the immunizing agent by the recipient country.
