Covid-19: Vaccine Production Debate
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Baroness Northover
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Covid-19: Vaccine Production
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Lord Callanan (Con)
My Lords, the intellectual property for the AstraZeneca vaccine, as is known, is actually owned by the University of Oxford. We will of course work with the companies and everyone possible to make sure that the third world is vaccinated, because that is in our interests. That is why we have contributed so much to the COVAX initiative.
Baroness Northover (LD)
Does the Minister agree that it was ODA funding to the Jenner Institute, for the Ebola crisis, that helped to underpin what it was later able to do in this pandemic? Has any new money been allocated by the UK to COVAX since the ODA cut last year?
Lord Callanan (Con)
We have donated £548 million to the COVAX initiative, which has been match funded to a total of $1 billion.