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World Bank Support for Country
Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
As of March 18, 2022, the World Bank approved operations to support vaccine
rollout in 70 countries amounting to 57.6 billion. See the latest project financing;
project documents and procurement information in the list below: More
information will be shared here as it becomes available:
Through this, the World Bank Group is working with partners on the largest
vaccination effort in history to stop the COVID-19 pandemic On April 2, 2020,at the
initial COVID-19 response phase; the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors
approved a $6 billion Global COVID-19 Response Program (also called the COVID-19
Strategic Preparedness and Response Program, or SPRP): The program has reached
over 100 countries with emergency operations to prevent; detect; and respond to
COVID-19 and strengthen systems for public health preparedness The timing of
potential vaccine development was not known when the SPRP was approved, but
global vaccine development efforts progressed rapidly. Recognizing the need for
COVID-19 vaccines;
on October 13,2020,the World Bank Board approved an
additional financing of $12 billion to the SPRP for developing countries to finance
the acquisition and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines (read the project paper): On June
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