Covid Vaccine Trade Tracker
- November 24, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Covid Vaccine Trade Tracker
Subject – Science and Tech
Context – WTO, IMF launch Covid vaccine trade tracker
Concept –
- To ensure greater transparency on the supply of vaccines across the world, the WTO and the IMF have launched the WTO-IMF Covid Vaccine Trade Tracker that provides data on the cross-border flow of vaccines by product, country and arrangement type.
- The portal provides an array of data on total vaccine supply to date, exports by producing economy and by supply arrangement type, imports by income group and by continent, supply by manufacturing economy and vaccine type, supply to continents and vaccination status.
- The vaccine tracker draws information from the public domain, the Covax Global Vaccine Market Assessment, the Unicef, Duke Global Health Innovation Center, Airfinity, Our World in Data, the World Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank, and the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team.
- Updates will be provided every month to reflect latest developments.