The COVAX mechanism ceased operations on December 31, 2023, and vaccination against COVID-19 issues are being transferred to routine immunization programs. The World Health Organization reported.
It said COVAX has delivered nearly 2 billion vaccine doses to 146 countries and prevented nearly 2.7 million deaths in low-income countries.
The comprehensive COVAX effort has helped low-income countries reach 57 percent of their populations coverage with two doses of vaccine with the global average of 67 percent.
In 2024 and 2025, low- and lower-middle-income countries will continue to receive COVID-19 vaccines and benefit from support from the GAVI Vaccine Alliance, with 58 countries requesting 83 million doses in 2024.
As the head of the Republican Center for Immunoprophylaxis Gulbara Ishenapysova told to 24.kg news agency, Kyrgyzstan will continue to receive WHO-prequalified vaccines against COVID-19 in 2024 and 2025, about which there is a corresponding letter of appeal to the Ministry of Health from the COVAX mechanism.
According to the Ministry of Health, from March 2021 to December 2023, the Kyrgyz Republic received a total of 6,889,780 doses of vaccines, of which more than 1.5 million were received under the COVAX mechanism.
Currently, the epidemiological situation related to coronavirus in the republic is regarded as stable, with two to six cases recorded per week.
Vaccination against coronavirus infection continues at all vaccination points. There is a Sinovac vaccine with an expiration date until June of this year.
20,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are expected in the first quarter of 2024.
COVAX is a multilateral mechanism created in 2020 to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines around the world.
