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First COVID-19 vaccine doses dispatched by COVAX arrive in Ghana

A test tube labelled "vaccine" in front of an AstraZeneca logo. [Reuters]

The World Health Organization’s global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first COVID-19 shots on Wednesday, as the race to get doses to the world’s poorest people and tame the pandemic accelerates.

A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed in Ghana’s capital Accra, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said in a joint statement.

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