• Globally, over 168 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered, amounting to nearly six million doses per day. Source
• Kenya’s Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe announces that the country’s first coronavirus vaccines will arrive at the end of February; it has secured 24 million doses from COVAX and intends to purchase an additional 11 million doses. Source
• Bloomberg reports that Israel, which made an agreement with Pfizer to provide extensive data about its coronavirus vaccine program in exchange for increasing and expediting vaccine deliveries, is storing 100,000 doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. Eli Gilad, a senior official at the Ministry of Health, said that “… it isn’t worth putting another vaccine into circulation when the country is using millions of Pfizer doses.” Although Israel has sent 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine to health care workers in Palestine and plans to send 3,000 additional doses, it has no plans to provide more vaccines to Palestinians in its occupied territories. Israel has also postponed delivery of its vaccine order from COVAX. Sources 1,2
