The health minister, Alain Berset, says Switzerland will donate 3 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine it has ordered to the international Covax programme designed to help poorer countries.
In total the government has 5 and a half million doses available. But the regulator, Swissmedic has yet to approve the drug.
Berset says if approval is given, AstraZeneca will only be a small part of the country’s vaccination programme.
The current two vaccines being used, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, use mRNA technology which many doctors say offer the best protection against possible new variants.
The AstraZeneca jab is a viral-vector vaccine.
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