The 92 countries to which the United States will send 500 million doses of Pfizer vaccine

Low income countries will start receiving this month the first shipments of 500 million doses of Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine against the COVID promised in July by the United States government.

These are not necessarily the same countries that have received vaccines in recent months through the mechanism of the Covax program, but rather a list defined with only monetary criteria, based on the income of its population. In this way, the United States is excluding any kind of political motivation in its efforts to help deal with the pandemic.

In july 2020, the Council of GAVI (Alianza de Vacunas) has agreed on the 92 economies that will receive support from COVAX’s Advance Market Engagement (CAM). The full list is as follows:

Low income: Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Syrian Arab Republic, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, United Republic of Tanzania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Togo, Uganda and Yemen.

Lower middle income: Angola, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Eswatini, Philippines, Ghana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Kenya , Kyrgyzstan, Kiribati, Lesotho, Morocco, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, West Bank and Gaza, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Other ADIs that could access: Dominica, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Kosovo, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tonga and Tuvalu.

Gavi, the Alliance for Vaccines, is a public-private partnership that helps immunize half of the world’s children against some of the world’s deadliest diseases. the chosen criterion is that they are all economies with a gross national income (GNI) per capita less than $ 4,000, as well as other economies eligible by the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), with updated data through 2018 and 2019.

For example, countries in South America like Argentina (USD 8,930), Colombia ($ 5,780) o Mexico ($ 8,480) are well above the threshold. In the case of Venezuela, which recently underwent a deep economic collapse, its official statistics have not been updated since 2014 by the World Bank, so it also remains far from the established maximum, with USD 13,080 per capita.

As announced in June by President Joe Biden, 200 million will be delivered by 2021 And the others 300 million the doses will be distributed in the first half of 2022.

Washington crossed the 110 million mark this week of doses distributed around the world, mainly via the Covax international distribution system, but also in conjunction with organizations such as the African Union or the Caribbean Community (Caricom). In Latin America, besides Colombia (6 million doses) doses received Guatemala (4.5 million), Mexico (4.04), Argentina (3.5), Brazil, The Savior Yes Honduras (3 million each), Paraguay, Peru Yes Ecuador (2 million each), Bolivia (1 million) and Costa Rica, Haiti, Panama Yes Uruguay (with 500,000 or more each).

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