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Virgin Atlantic backs Covid-19 vaccine equity campaign

Charity
Will Payne
10 December 2021

All donations made onboard Virgin Atlantic flights in December will be used to support the World Health Organisation (WHO) Foundation’s Covid-19 vaccine equity campaign.

The airline first started flying to Saint Lucia in 1999

Donations made will fund vaccines in middle- and lower-income countries to help combat the pandemic and the Virgin Atlantic Foundation has pledged an additional £50,000.
 
The money raised will go to an international financing mechanism called Gavi COVAX Advanced Market Commitment (AMC), which buys Covid-19 vaccines and prioritises those who need them the most.

The campaign asks individuals to donate £4, which is the cost of a single vaccine, with the aim to get 50 million people across the world to take part. 

Corneel Koster, chief customer and operating officer for the airline, said Covid-19 is something "we must learn to live with".