GENEVA, March 2 (Reuters) - Some 237 million doses of
AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN)'s AZN.L COVID-19 vaccine are expected to be
delivered to 142 countries by the end of May through the COVAX
facility, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said
on Tuesday.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, told a
news conference that vaccine deliveries were planned on Tuesday
to Angola, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and
Nigeria.
Ghana's president Nana Akufo-Addo said his West African
country, which has begun its innoculation campaign with COVAX
doses, aimed to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of 2021.