Saudi Arabia in talks with vaccine companies to provide vaccines to Yemen, Africa: Finance minister

Reuters , Tuesday 26 Jan 2021

He said Yemen for example and some of the African nations would not be able to get enough vaccines through the COVAX facility

Coronavirus in Yemen
File Photo: A medic wearing a protective suit attends to a patient at the emergency ward of a hospital for coronavirus in Aden, Yemen taken on April 30, 2020. Reuters

Saudi Arabia's finance minister said on Tuesday his country is talking to vaccine producers to provide vaccines to low-income countries such as Yemen and countries in Africa.

"We are negotiating with a lot of the vaccination companies to provide more vaccination particularly to low income countries," he said during a virtual World Economic Forum in Davos.

He said Yemen for example and some of the African nations would not be able to get enough vaccines through the COVAX facility - the global pooled procurement mechanism for COVID-19 vaccines. 

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