{"id":28964,"date":"2021-02-04T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=28964"},"modified":"2021-02-04T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T20:56:56","slug":"canada-defends-taking-vaccines-from-sharing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/canada-defends-taking-vaccines-from-sharing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada defends taking vaccines from sharing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canada has defended its decision to draw on a supply of coronavirus vaccines from a global inoculation-sharing initiativ<\/strong><strong>e<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The global inoculation-sharing initiative Covax recently announced a plan to pools funds from wealthier countries to help buy more than 330 million vaccine doses for themselves and low-income nations in the first half of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Canada, which has vaccinated 2.29% of its population with one dose, including 48% of health workers, is the only member of the G7 group of rich countries listed as a Covax beneficiary at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Covax, Canada has struck agreements for 398 million doses\u2014more than enough to cover the country\u2019s population of 37 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gwY4Dy1DaPc&amp;ab_channel=CBCNews\">In an interview with Canadian broadcaster CBC News<\/a>, International Development Minister, Karina Gould, was asked why the country decided to access Covax vaccines now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur top priority is to ensure Canadians have access to vaccines,\u201d the minister said. \u201cCovax\u2019s objective is to provide vaccines for 20% of the populations of all member states, both self-financing and those who will receive donations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada made the decision, as other countries have, to take on this first allocation because we recognize how important it is that all Canadians have access to vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government has come under pressure to speed up vaccinations after delays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has defended its decision to draw on a supply  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":28966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[529,3410,4243],"class_list":["post-28964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28967,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions\/28967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}