The government will review the need for joint vaccine purchase funds in Asia and start working on creating grounds for establishment. The move is aimed at preventing repeated cases of global difficulties in supplying vaccines with COVID-19 Pandemic and bridging the gap in accessibility to public vaccines and biopharmaceuticals by country.

On the 14th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Global Vaccine Hub Promotion Team announced that it will start researching a joint vaccine purchase fund to ensure access to vaccines in mid- to low-income countries in Asia.

According to the MOHW, GAVI had difficulty in supplying vaccines in Asia as it implemented a vaccine supply policy that utilizes a