The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced, on Thursday 12 November, during the Paris Peace Forum (see EUROPE B12599A29) that the EU would provide an additional grant of €100 million to support the COVAX mechanism to ensure access to the future Covid-19 vaccine in low- and middle-income countries.
These grants come from the general reserve of the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) and will take the form of a grant to GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, in its...