In anticipation of the large volumes available through the COVAX Facility deals portfolio later in the year, COVAX also urges multilateral development banks to urgently release funding to help countries prepare their health systems for large-scale rollout of vaccines in the coming months.
“This is an important moment of global solidarity and a critical milestone in the push to ensure those most at risk, everywhere are protected,” said Dr Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi).
“As we strive towards our goal of ending the acute phase of the pandemic, we look forward to working with countries to ensure these doses pledged are quickly turned into doses delivered.”
“This is an historic moment - as leaders of some of the wealthiest counties come together to ensure that all parts of the world have access to life saving vaccines,” Dr Richard Hatchett, CEO of CEPI (the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations), added.
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这次疫情已经告诉我们，不能把国家利益和国际利益对立起来。
“This pandemic has shown us that we cannot set national against international interests.
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对于像COVID-19这样的疾病，我们必须确保在任何地方都能控制它。
With a disease like COVID-19 we have to ensure that we get it under control everywhere.
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我们还有很多工作要做，才能完成接种，并确保研发能够让我们领先病毒一步。
There is still much to do to get vaccines in arms and ensure our R&D allows us to stay one step ahead of the virus.
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但是今天，我们可以暂停一下，庆祝政治团结和合作的分水岭时刻”。
But for today we give pause and celebrate a watershed moment of political alignment and collaboration.”
Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF, said: “We have reached a grim milestone in this pandemic: There are already more dead from COVID-19 in 2021 than in all of last year.
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如果不采取紧急行动，这场灾难将继续下去。
Without urgent action, this devastation will continue.