Subject: Weekly Vaccine Marketplace Update as of 4 March, 2021 - with attachment
From: Sebastian-A Molineus <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Ekaterine Tikaradze <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tania Dmytraczenko <[email-masked]>, Ahmet Levent Yener <[email-masked]>, Volkan Cetinkaya <[email-masked]>, "Nino V. Moroshkina" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 10:27:08 +0000

Dear Ivane, Eka, and Tamar -

please find attached the weekly vaccine marketplace update. A few highlights:

Johnson and Johnson was approved by the FDA. This is the first single dose vaccine to be approved by an SRA. It is considered a game changer within the USA because it is the first non-mRNA vaccine which means it can be stored and transported at normal
freezer temperatures.

COVAX is starting to gain steam. Ghana, Ivory Coast, South Korea, India and Colombia have already received their first deliveries of vaccines through Covax. Nigeria, Angola, Cambodia all received their first vaccine doses via Covax this week, with
the DR Congo also scheduled for a delivery.  And this of course now also includes Georgia!

The EU is considering switching to Emergency Use approvals. Under pressure to speed up its approval process, The European Commission said that it was considering emergency approvals for COVID-19 vaccines as a faster alternative to more rigorous conditional
marketing authorizations which have been used so far.

In terms of Vaccinations; more than 271 million doses (Last week: 218 million) have been administered across 108 countries (Last week: 99 countries), according to data collected
by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 6.36 million doses a day (Last week: 6.14 million doses a day).

As always, I would ask that you pls. keep this information confidential.

Thank you and kind regards,

Sebastian

Sebastian Molineus

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