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Foreign Affairs committee Thank you for the question. I can take that one. No, Canada has not been relying on that specific vaccine candidate to meet the target of donating the equivalent of 200 million vaccines to COVAX by the end of 2022. As I mentioned, a key, necessary step for COVAX to add a vaccine
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you for your question. Our offer of vaccines to the government and people of Haiti is quite clear, and our ambassador is keeping a very close eye on the situation. We are ready to work with the Haitians as soon as they tell us they need doses to administer. We are here fo
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee There's a great deal of analysis and multiple opinions on this question. It's one the committee is likely to return to. Personally, I do think that the world is on track for an average immunization level of around 70% or even exceeding it by the end of 2022. I will note, however,
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you for that excellent question. Low demand is not necessarily an optimistic sign. It's a complex challenge. The doses are available. If Haiti wants to access doses through COVAX, they could be there in a few weeks. Low vaccination rates are not the result of a shortage o
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee At this stage, we don't have any detailed or granular information about doses going to waste. I can assure you that no countries received doses from COVAX that they had not agreed to take. There have been no doses shipped through COVAX that have not been explicitly requested and
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee It is a monumental undertaking to have designed a new multilateral mechanism for the procurement and delivery of vaccines. I would point to a few specific milestones that give us comfort and confidence in how effective the mechanism has been. First, the COVAX mechanism was able
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee Much of the funding that Canada has provided to the COVAX facility is for the procurement of vaccines by COVAX. COVAX purchases the vaccines and allocates them through the WHO allocation mechanism to countries in need. As such, the 87 million doses that we have procured the equi
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee Yes, that is through grant funding to the COVAX facility partners; as such, we work with trusted international assistance partners, like the GAVI, the global alliance for vaccines. They work with other partners to procure doses through the grant funding provided by Canada, other
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee To date, Canada has provided $540 million to the COVAX facility.
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee The G7 methodology agreed with COVAX takes the total support provided by a donor to COVAX in terms of unrestricted grant supports for COVAX's work and then calculates the dose equivalency based on that. For Canada, that $554 million in grant supports translates to the equivalent
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee Canada works closely with COVAX to ensure that COVAX receives the support it requires to partner with developing countries and others to meet their vaccine needs. We're already at just over 100 million doses provided against that commitment of 200 million, some from the cash proc
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee I'm sorry, sir, but I'm not well positioned to speak about Canada's overall procurement. When doses are made available for donation, we offer them to COVAX, and COVAX uses its allocation framework to place them where they are most needed around the world.
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee That's an excellent question but quite a detailed one. That information is publicly available on COVAX's website. I would be happy to make sure there is follow-up for that. At a general level, I can say that COVAX is only in position to procure vaccines that are received through
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you, Chair. It is my pleasure to be here before the committee. I'm joined today from Geneva by my colleague Stephen de Boer, Canadian ambassador and permanent representative to the WTO. Building on decades of leadership in global health, Canada has been a champion of vacc
March 21st, 2022Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you, Minister. Thanks to the member. I can go into more detail in writing, of course, afterwards, but some of the other leading donors right now include Germany, with a substantial commitment, alongside the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Those are sort of
April 29th, 2021Committee meeting
Joshua Tabah