Other poorer nations, with fledgling vaccination drives at best, also received fewer shots than Britain. This made some rich nations, which already had many vaccines through separate deals with pharmaceutical firms, eligible for COVAX doses alongside countries with no vaccines at all. It has invested 71 million pounds ($97 million) in COVAX, which in theory allows it to buy up to 27 million doses, plus this summer began donating up to nine million shots, some via COVAX. Yet within that group it was still assigning vaccines according to the population sizes, rather than their total vaccination coverage. The UAE passed on its March allocation, Gavi said.
