Expand the eligibility criteria for hedging to also include direct investment transactions with anticipatory basis documents and extend the hedging tenor based on the anticipatory basis document to more than one year
The Government of Japan has decided to provide approximately 110,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in Japan, through the COVAX facility, to the Independent State of Samoa, as part of assistance by Japan to contribute to the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 in Samoa. The vaccines are scheduled to arrive in Samoa on August 19.
The donation was a part of food assistance pledged by the Japan government earlier this year, to Sri Lanka, where more than 6 million people - nearly 30 percent of the population, are facing a worsening food crisis.