Health/COVID-19

The COV­AX mech­a­nism includes the COV­AX Facil­i­ty, as well as the COV­AX advance mar­ket com­mit­ment (COV­AXAMC) financ­ing instru­ment. This is enabling 92 low- and mid­dle-income economies to be sup­plied with donor-fund­ed dos­es of vac­cine. In 2021, Lux­em­bourg made its first vac­cine dona­tions under the COV­AX mech­a­nism. As of 4 Feb­ru­ary 2022, Lux­em­bourg had ini­ti­at­ed pro­ce­dures with­in the frame­work of Team Europe for the dona­tion of 605850 dos­es of vac­cines through the COV­AX mech­a­nism, and 209850 dos­es of vac­cine were deliv­ered through the COV­AX mech­a­nism to dif­fer­ent ben­e­fi­cia­ry coun­tries: Egypt, Ghana, Pak­istan, Rwan­da and Viet­nam. In addi­tion, Lux­em­bourg Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion has also made a dona­tion of 56000 dos­es of AstraZeneca vac­cine to Cabo Verde under the Euro­pean Union Civ­il Pro­tec­tion Mechanism.

Lux­em­bourg has also con­tributed EUR2 mil­lion to the C19RM mech­a­nism – the COVID-19 response mech­a­nism of the Glob­al Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuber­cu­lo­sis and Malar­ia – whose funds are chan­nelled into the ACT‑A Accel­er­a­tor. As the oper­a­tional arm of Luxembourg’s human­i­tar­i­an action, the emer​gency​.lu team, in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Health, the Direc­torate of Defence, the Lux­em­bourg Army and the CGDIS, has coor­di­nat­ed all Luxembourg’s activ­i­ties relat­ing to in-kind dona­tions in response to the health sit­u­a­tion result­ing from the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. For exam­ple, Lux­em­bourg was able to deliv­er 50 vac­cine refrig­er­a­tors to Burk­i­na Faso and six to Sudan, 56000 dos­es of AstraZeneca vac­cine and 60000 syringes to Cabo Verde, sev­en ven­ti­la­tors to Tunisia and eight to Nepal and 350000 anti­gen tests to Kosovo.