WHO says 16bn vaccine doses worth $141bn supplied in 2021
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced that in 2021, an approximate 16 billion doses of vaccines, valued at $141 billion, were delivered.
This amount is nearly three times the market volume in 2019 (5.8 billion) and almost three-and-a-half times its worth ($38 billion).
In its initial data on the worldwide vaccine market released since the onset of COVID-19, the WHO made this statement on Wednesday.
The rise, according to the global health organization, was mainly driven by COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the remarkable capacity for scaling up vaccine production in response to medical requirements.
Though global manufacturing capability has expanded, it remains heavily concentrated, according to the report.
“Ten manufacturers alone supply 70 percent of vacci...