While we as a nation first committed to the project, together with our 26 fellow EU states, back in September of 2020, it took a further 12 months before Ireland’s first commitment to a donation was made official. Ireland’s history with Covax is not particularly auspicious. To date more than two thirds of the planet’s countries have engaged with the initiative, which has a goal of 2 billion vaccine doses being made available for lower-income nations. The Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access project (Covax), which was begun in April of 2020 - long before any vaccine for the virus was even available - was initially a joint venture of the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, and the Government of France. So surely it is in richer countries’ interest to aid those who have less in the interest of the common good? That’s where Covax was due to come in. In a world of international travel, the virus simply cannot be contained with a vaccination mismatch of that magnitude. Meanwhile, the average level of vaccine penetration in the developing world hovers around the 2% mark.
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