UAE launches initiative to distribute vaccines to developing countries

The UAE refuses to tolerate "vaccine nationalism" and announces the formation of a coalition of companies to distribute two billion doses during 2021.

The UAE on Sunday initiated the formation of a coalition of national companies that would distribute two billion doses of Corona vaccines to developing countries, and criticized the efforts of some countries to disrupt the distribution in the interest of vaccinating their citizens.

There are widespread fears of a delay in the arrival of vaccines to poor countries in a timely manner, due to the tendencies of some rich countries to "vaccine nationalism".

The Dubai Government Media Office and the Emirates News Agency said that the Emirates Air Cargo companies, Dubai airports and Dubai Ports World will help in the "fair distribution" of two billion doses to developing countries in 2021.

In a tweet on Sunday, the office quoted Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, CEO of airline. The UAE and the President of Dubai Airports as saying that the three companies have formed a logistical alliance "to accelerate the global distribution of urgently needed vaccines through Dubai."

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed said, "We are now on the cusp of a historic moment with the launch of the Covid-19 pandemic vaccines, which have disrupted various aspects of life around the world. The United Arab Emirates stands at the forefront of the world in distributing vaccines."

"We are all well aware of the challenges facing us globally in this pandemic, and the need to work together. The nationalism of the vaccine should not be tolerated in our common fight to defeat Covid," the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Anwar Gargash, wrote in a tweet on Sunday.

The World Health Organization has previously warned that the gap is widening between the rich and the poor regarding access to vaccines, and that the world is on the "brink of moral failure" in this regard.

The Director-General of the Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at the beginning of the week, citing a new study by the International Chamber of Commerce, "

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