Entire globe is a unit: Centre told SC on vaccine exports
3 years, 7 months ago

Entire globe is a unit: Centre told SC on vaccine exports

The Hindu  

The “entire globe is a unit” during a pandemic. Simultaneous vaccination without priority classification would have led to “commotion”, the Centre told the Supreme Court. “To illustrate, having received one crore vaccine doses for a particular State or city, the vaccine drive would need sufficient number of medical staff who can administer the vaccines and infrastructure like hospitals, primary health centres, etc… It is needless to mention that manufacturing of vaccine would not be proportionate to the available manpower and infrastructure facilities in the country,” the government justified. Even if such infrastructure was available, the Centre said, “simultaneous vaccine without priority classification would lead to commotion”. Terming vaccine as a “public good”, West Bengal said even “a single person deprived of vaccination would be to the collective detriment of a large section of society”.

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Under A Market Logic, Even Pathogens Have Proud Owners
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Under A Market Logic, Even Pathogens Have Proud Owners

Live Law  

Exactly after four years of the Covid-19 hit the globe, WHO is ready with a draft negotiating text of the Pandemic Agreement with 'prevention, preparedness and response' as its purpose. The draft defines 'pathogen with pandemic potential' as “any pathogen that has been identified to infect a human and that is: novel or known, potentially highly transmissible and /or highly …

India urges G-20 countries to join vaccine research collaborative in wake of COVID vaccine inequity
1 year, 6 months ago

India urges G-20 countries to join vaccine research collaborative in wake of COVID vaccine inequity

The Hindu  

With the COVID-19 pandemic exposing the acute inequity in vaccine development and access, the Indian government is working in partnership with two leading global non-profits to convene and build consensus among the G-20 member States and others, for a proposed Global Vaccine Research Collaborative. “International cooperation is essential to advance vaccine development for emerging pathogens, and the G-20 can serve …

Explained | Can vaccine distribution be made fairer?
2 years, 1 month ago

Explained | Can vaccine distribution be made fairer?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Global Dashboard for Vaccine Equity, a joint effort by the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization and the University of Oxford with cooperation across the UN system, has put out recent data that justifies the vexatious core of the vaccine distribution programme: Only one in four people has been vaccinated with at least …

In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID-19
2 years, 4 months ago

In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID-19

The Hindu  

Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa, could leave millions of people unprotected against a more dangerous version of the disease and risk continued spillovers of the virus into humans, public health officials are warning. Yet while monkeypox is much harder to spread than COVID-19, experts warn that if …

UK-India Relationship Has Emerged Stronger Than Ever After the Covid Turbulence
2 years, 5 months ago

UK-India Relationship Has Emerged Stronger Than Ever After the Covid Turbulence

News 18  

With the UK-India week on the cusp, it becomes pertinent to discuss how the United Kingdom and India have weathered rough storms during the pandemic years to come out closer than ever. It is this three-way partnership that has now been at the helm of having already delivered over 2 billion affordable, effective vaccines which have now been administered to …

Modi@8: India’s Covid Vax Drive is a Myth Breaker in Public Health Space, Writes NTAGI Head NK Arora
2 years, 6 months ago

Modi@8: India’s Covid Vax Drive is a Myth Breaker in Public Health Space, Writes NTAGI Head NK Arora

News 18  

Not so long back, a reputed international media-house had predicted gloomily that it could take over a decade for India to vaccinate its 1.4 billion population against Covid-19. The resounding success of this drive, which has been a proactive, pre-emptive, and graded response in the management of Covid-19 has been a myth-breaker on several fronts in the public health space …

BRICS grouping should work together to support vaccine endeavours: Health Minister
2 years, 9 months ago

BRICS grouping should work together to support vaccine endeavours: Health Minister

The Hindu  

India, having one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturing industries that supplied vaccines to more than 150 countries and met 65-70% of the World Health Organisation’s vaccine requirements, is willing to offer its robust vaccine manufacturing industry for developing vaccines for BRICS, as well as the world,” Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday while launching the BRICS …

Too little, too late: The Hindu Editorial on COVID-19 vaccines and patent rights
2 years, 9 months ago

Too little, too late: The Hindu Editorial on COVID-19 vaccines and patent rights

The Hindu  

In 2020, a key question that the pandemic posed was whether nations would act in solidarity and prioritise equity for the larger good over narrow self-interest. It was amid this turmoil that India and South Africa had proposed at the WTO that all patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines, drugs and diagnostics be temporarily suspended to ensure smooth manufacture and distribution. …

EU praises vaccine cooperation with Africa at summit
2 years, 10 months ago

EU praises vaccine cooperation with Africa at summit

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders on Thursday lauded the bloc’s vaccine cooperation with Africa in the fight against the coronavirus, but there was no sign they would move toward a temporary lifting of intellectual property rights protection for COVID-19 shots. “It is about the capacity of Africa to produce their own vaccines, to develop mRNA manufacturing capacity across Africa,” von …

WHO warns fears of omicron could spark new vaccine hoarding
3 years ago

WHO warns fears of omicron could spark new vaccine hoarding

The Hindu  

The World Health Organization expressed concerns Thursday that rich countries spooked by the emergence of the omicron variant could step up the hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines and strain global supplies again, complicating efforts to stamp out the pandemic. “What is going to shut down disease is for everybody who is especially at risk of disease to become vaccinated,” said Dr. …

WHO warns against rich nations hoarding jabs to fight Omicron
3 years ago

WHO warns against rich nations hoarding jabs to fight Omicron

Al Jazeera  

Key problem for international dose-sharing programme is wealthy countries donating COVID-19 vaccines with short shelf life, WHO says. The World Health Organization official has warned that wealthy countries may start hoarding COVID-19 vaccines again, threatening global supplies as they seek to shore up stocks to fight the new Omicron variant of coronavirus. The comments on Thursday by the agency’s vaccine …

Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic
3 years ago

Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic

Al Jazeera  

The United Kingdom and wealthy European nations are in a panic. For more than a year, the UK and European Union have blocked a proposal from South Africa and India to suspend intellectual property on COVID -19 technologies including vaccines. But South Africa’s lingering apartheid-era health system, enduring levels of poverty, and year-long inability to obtain decent amounts of vaccines …

Covid-19: J&J's Hyderabad-made Jabs Get CDL Nod, Over 1 Cr Doses Ready for Export
3 years, 1 month ago

Covid-19: J&J's Hyderabad-made Jabs Get CDL Nod, Over 1 Cr Doses Ready for Export

News 18  

American pharma giant Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine shots, manufactured in India by Hyderabad-based Biological E, are ready for export, News18.com learnt. “Once the Drug Controller General of India approves the report sent by CDL and the request filed by the company, the batches can be exported.” The move is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement at the …

African Union to buy up to 110 million Moderna COVID vaccines
3 years, 1 month ago

African Union to buy up to 110 million Moderna COVID vaccines

Al Jazeera  

Arrangement brokered in part by the White House which will defer delivery of some doses intended for US to facilitate the deal. The African Union intends to buy up to 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc in an arrangement brokered in part by the White House which will defer delivery of some doses intended for the United …

Health Minister Discussed Emergency Use of India’s Covaxin with WHO
3 years, 2 months ago

Health Minister Discussed Emergency Use of India’s Covaxin with WHO

The Quint  

"We are aware that many people are waiting for WHO's recommendation for Covaxin to be included in the #COVID19 Emergency Use Listing, but we cannot cut corners - before recommending a product for emergency use, we must evaluate it thoroughly to make sure it is safe and effective," the global health organisation had said in a tweet. Our goal is …

EU says exports of COVID-19 vaccines now top 1 billion mark
3 years, 2 months ago

EU says exports of COVID-19 vaccines now top 1 billion mark

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top official said Monday that the bloc has now exported over 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the rest of the world. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the vaccines have been sent to over 150 nations, making the 27-member bloc the largest exporter of the vaccines in the world, to nations …

UN calls for $8bn to redress world COVID vaccine imbalance
3 years, 2 months ago

UN calls for $8bn to redress world COVID vaccine imbalance

Al Jazeera  

UN chief Antonio Guterres says vaccine inequity is not only “immoral but stupid” because it will give rise to new variants and more deaths. “Vaccine inequality is the best ally of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Guterres said, as he appealed for wealthy nations who have so far received most of the world’s vaccines to step up. “It is allowing variants to …

WHO 'Deeply Concerned' Over Covid Vaccines Approved for Emergency Use Not Being Recognised in All Countries: Official
3 years, 2 months ago

WHO 'Deeply Concerned' Over Covid Vaccines Approved for Emergency Use Not Being Recognised in All Countries: Official

News 18  

The World Health Organisation is deeply concerned that COVID-19 vaccines that have proven to be effective and have been approved by the global health body for emergency use are not being recognised in all countries, an official said on Thursday. Addressing a press briefing, Dr Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the organisation …

WHO 'deeply concerned' over Covid vaccines approved for emergency use not being recognised in all countries
3 years, 2 months ago

WHO 'deeply concerned' over Covid vaccines approved for emergency use not being recognised in all countries

India TV News  

The World Health Organisation is “deeply concerned” that COVID-19 vaccines that have proven to be effective and have been approved by the global health body for emergency use are not being recognized in all countries, an official said on Thursday. Addressing a press briefing, Dr. Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the organization again …

India may try to find 'middle ground' for usage and export of J&J single-shot jab
3 years, 2 months ago

India may try to find 'middle ground' for usage and export of J&J single-shot jab

Firstpost  

A strategy needs to be put in place where India may take a share of the monthly production of J&J’s vaccine for domestic use, said a senior government official privy to developments on this front The Indian government may initiate a fresh round of talks with Johnson & Johnson to find a middle ground on domestic usage and export of …

Explained | Why has India agreed to resume vaccine export?
3 years, 2 months ago

Explained | Why has India agreed to resume vaccine export?

The Hindu  

The story so far: With close to 85 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine doses dispensed in India so far, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya earlier this week disclosed plans to resume export of the India-made vaccine from October, under a programme called ‘Vaccine Maitri’, to foreign countries as well as COVAX. According to data from the Ministry of External Affairs, as …

Quad leaders welcome India's decision to resume export of Covid-19 vaccines
3 years, 2 months ago

Quad leaders welcome India's decision to resume export of Covid-19 vaccines

India Today  

The Quad countries — the United States, India, Japan, and Australia — welcomed India’s announcement to resume exports of safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines, including to Covax, from October. Read | Modi-Biden meet: Talks focus on trade, Covid; leaders vow to strengthen Indo-US ties "The Quad leaders welcome Biological E LTD’s production, including through our Quad investments, of at least …

''Vaccine apartheid'': Africans tell UN they need vaccines
3 years, 3 months ago

''Vaccine apartheid'': Africans tell UN they need vaccines

The Hindu  

As wealthy countries begin to consider whether to offer their populations a third COVID-19 shot, African nations still waiting for their first have given this as a stark reminder to world leaders at the UN General Assembly: “No one is safe unless we are all safe.” That message was repeated throughout the day as the inequity of vaccine distribution came …

‘Vaccine apartheid': Africans tell UN they need vaccines
3 years, 3 months ago

‘Vaccine apartheid': Africans tell UN they need vaccines

Associated Press  

As wealthy countries begin to consider whether to offer their populations a third COVID-19 shot, African nations still waiting for their first gave this stark reminder to world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday: “No one is safe unless we are all safe.” That message was repeated throughout the day as the inequity of vaccine distribution came into …

What to expect at the Modi-Biden summit
3 years, 3 months ago

What to expect at the Modi-Biden summit

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to meet US President Joe Biden for their maiden bilateral meeting in Washington DC on September 24. Climate change The two countries this year launched a new high-level team-up—the ‘US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership’. Both India and the US are expected to reiterate their commitment to a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’—a region …

Quad partnership on track to produce at least a billion vaccine doses in India by 2022: Joe Biden
3 years, 3 months ago

Quad partnership on track to produce at least a billion vaccine doses in India by 2022: Joe Biden

India TV News  

The Quad partnership is on track to produce at least a billion vaccine doses in India by 2022, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday, asserting that nothing is more urgent than working together to defeat COVID-19 so the world is much better prepared for future pandemics. The United States and its international partners are working quickly to scale up …

Global COVID-19 summit: PM calls for mutual recognition of vaccine certificates amid UK row; key points of address
3 years, 3 months ago

Global COVID-19 summit: PM calls for mutual recognition of vaccine certificates amid UK row; key points of address

Firstpost  

Modi said mutual recognition of vaccine certificates would ease international travel amid economic constraints. He also mentioned that India is ramping up production capacity of existing vaccines so that supplies to other countries can be resumed On Wedesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for mutual recognition of vaccine certificates to ease international travel amid several countries adopting different sets of …

International travel should be made easier via mutual recognition of vaccine certificates: PM at COVID Summit
3 years, 3 months ago

International travel should be made easier via mutual recognition of vaccine certificates: PM at COVID Summit

India TV News  

Emphasising the need to address the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that international travel should be made easier through mutual recognition of vaccine certificates. Addressing the Global COVID-19 Summit, the Prime Minister also said the supply chains of raw materials must be kept open for the production of vaccines against the disease. …

India to resume exporting surplus COVID-19 vaccines in October, says health minister Mansukh Mandaviya
3 years, 3 months ago

India to resume exporting surplus COVID-19 vaccines in October, says health minister Mansukh Mandaviya

Firstpost  

Addressing the media, the minister said the government will receive over 30 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in October and over 100 crore doses in the next three months. New Delhi: India will resume export of surplus COVID-19 vaccines in October under the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ programme and to meet its commitment to the COVAX global pool, but vaccinating its own …

COVID-19 Vaccines: India Must Secure Itself Despite ‘Export’ Pressure
3 years, 3 months ago

COVID-19 Vaccines: India Must Secure Itself Despite ‘Export’ Pressure

The Quint  

President Joe Biden has convened a virtual COVID summit on September 22 on the margins of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly. To ward off continuing criticism that America has not done enough for less developed countries, Biden is expected to announce the supply of 500 million vaccines doses to the poorer parts of the world. The …

India to resume COVID vaccine exports to COVAX, neighbours
3 years, 3 months ago

India to resume COVID vaccine exports to COVAX, neighbours

Al Jazeera  

The health minister says government will prioritise the global vaccine-sharing platform and India’s neighbouring countries. India will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccines from the next quarter, prioritising the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX and neighbouring countries first as supplies rise, according to the health minister. The country’s monthly vaccine output has since more than doubled and is set to quadruple to …

Op-Ed: Biden’s vaccine summit is a chance to commit doses where they’re needed most
3 years, 3 months ago

Op-Ed: Biden’s vaccine summit is a chance to commit doses where they’re needed most

LA Times  

The world stands at a critical juncture of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries that lack the first round of vaccine coverage are extraordinarily vulnerable to the highly infectious Delta variant and are Governments of countries where vaccines are being produced — the United States, European Union members, the United Kingdom, India, Russia and China — need to cooperate under United Nations …

Covax misses its 2021 delivery target — what’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism?
3 years, 3 months ago

Covax misses its 2021 delivery target — what’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism?

The Hindu  

The latest supply forecast for Covax — the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world — suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely. Covax estimates it will have distributed 1.425 billion vaccine doses by the end of 2021, significantly less than the 2 billion doses it was aiming for earlier this year. Only 280.5 million COVID-19 vaccine …

Biden Will Try To Rally The World To Boost COVID-19 Vaccinations As The U.N. Meets
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden Will Try To Rally The World To Boost COVID-19 Vaccinations As The U.N. Meets

NPR  

Biden Will Try To Rally The World To Boost COVID-19 Vaccinations As The U.N. Meets Enlarge this image toggle caption Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images Facing criticism for its plan to give Americans third doses of COVID-19 vaccines while millions in the world's poorest countries are still waiting for a first shot, the White House …

India’s vaccine drive remarkable: Melinda Gates
3 years, 3 months ago

India’s vaccine drive remarkable: Melinda Gates

Hindustan Times  

In an emailed interview to Rhythma Kaul, Gates Foundation co-chair Melinda French Gates explains how the health care delivery system is going to change post Covid-19 pandemic, and how India has remarkably managed to scale up vaccinations against the virus. India’s Covid-19 management and the country-wide immunization drive have demonstrated why long-term investments in health systems are crucial. In particular, …

The world needs more COVID vaccines. That gives Biden a chance to lead
3 years, 3 months ago

The world needs more COVID vaccines. That gives Biden a chance to lead

LA Times  

Kaleigha Smith, 12, is tested for the coronavirus Aug. 11 at Northridge Middle School. “Stamping out the virus everywhere protects our health and our economy here at home,” Biden’s COVID-19 coordinator, Jeffrey Zients, said last week. “We still see shocking inequities in access to vaccines,” the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said last week. “From the …

EU to return millions of doses of J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine imported from Africa
3 years, 3 months ago

EU to return millions of doses of J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine imported from Africa

Live Mint  

The European Union will return to Africa millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine that it received from a plant in South Africa, following criticism by health activists that the bloc was taking away shots from a continent that has the lowest immunization rate in the world. Strive Masiyiwa, who heads the African Union’s Vaccine Acquisition Task Team, …

South Africa will no longer send J&J vaccines to Europe, AU envoy says
3 years, 3 months ago

South Africa will no longer send J&J vaccines to Europe, AU envoy says

CNN  

CNN — An arrangement in which Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines were being shipped from South Africa to Europe has been suspended, African Union Special Envoy for Covid-19 response, Strive Masiyiwa, has said. The arrangement was reversed in part due to interventions from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and French President Emmanuel Macron, …

What is being done to distribute COVID-19 vaccines globally?
3 years, 4 months ago

What is being done to distribute COVID-19 vaccines globally?

Associated Press  

LONDON — What is being done to distribute COVID-19 vaccines globally? Several groups are working to get shots to poor countries, but they’re falling far short of what’s needed to curb outbreaks around the world. Without enough purchased vaccines, COVAX is now relying on donated shots from wealthy countries, but most of the pledged doses won’t be delivered this year. …

South African activists slam J&J for exporting vaccines
3 years, 4 months ago

South African activists slam J&J for exporting vaccines

Associated Press  

JOHANNESBURG — Health activists in Africa have slammed Johnson & Johnson for exporting vaccines produced in South Africa to countries in Europe, which have already immunized large numbers of their people and have even donated vaccines to more needy countries. The South African activists on Tuesday called for a full disclosure of the South African government’s contracts with Johnson & …

U.S. ships over 110 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad; India does not take any due to liability issues
3 years, 4 months ago

U.S. ships over 110 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad; India does not take any due to liability issues

The Hindu  

The U.S. has shipped more than 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to middle and low income countries, U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday. An Indian official involved in the vaccine negotiations told The Hindu that while U.S. donated vaccines could be accepted with an implicit indemnity cover from the government, several “challenges remain” in terms of resolving the …

Call to allow developing countries to produce Covid vaccines, amid fears of new variants
3 years, 4 months ago

Call to allow developing countries to produce Covid vaccines, amid fears of new variants

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Many of the deaths we mourn today could have been …

India to get 7.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine through COVAX programme: WHO
3 years, 5 months ago

India to get 7.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine through COVAX programme: WHO

India Today  

Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director of the World Health Organisation - South-East Asia, on Monday said that India has been offered 7.5 million doses of Moderna vaccine through the global health body’s Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access programme. However, there is no clarity so far when the jabs would be available in the country as WHO said that the availability …

It’s Complicated! A Brief Timeline of US and India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Sharing History
3 years, 5 months ago

It’s Complicated! A Brief Timeline of US and India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Sharing History

News 18  

With more than four lakh deaths, India is one of the worst-hit countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. April 16 2021 Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the Serum Institute of India, tweeted at the American President, Joe Biden, and wrote, “Respected @POTUS, if we are to truly unite in beating this virus, on behalf of the vaccine industry outside the U.S., …

Actively Pursuing Enhancement of Vaccine Availability Through Imports: Govt
3 years, 5 months ago

Actively Pursuing Enhancement of Vaccine Availability Through Imports: Govt

News 18  

The government on Thursday said it is “actively pursuing” the enhancement of Covid vaccine availability through imports and reiterated that its current focus is on purposing domestic production towards its vaccination programme. At an online media briefing, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said India hopes that individual countries would increasingly recognise made-in-India vaccines. “Let me reiterate that our …

Africa’s COVID-19 envoy blasts EU, COVAX over vaccine crisis
3 years, 5 months ago

Africa’s COVID-19 envoy blasts EU, COVAX over vaccine crisis

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — The African Union special envoy tasked with leading efforts to procure COVID-19 vaccines for the continent is blasting Europe as Africa struggles amid a crushing third surge of infections, saying Thursday that “not one dose, not one vial, has left a European factory for Africa.” Strive Masiyiwa also took aim at the global effort meant to distribute …

Just Give Us the Vaccines, WHO Pleads, as Poor Countries Go Wanting
3 years, 5 months ago

Just Give Us the Vaccines, WHO Pleads, as Poor Countries Go Wanting

News 18  

Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from COVID-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said on Friday, condemning a global failure. The situation in Africa, where new infections and deaths jumped by nearly 40% last week compared to the previous week, is “so dangerous” as …

Vaccine technology transfer center to open in South Africa
3 years, 6 months ago

Vaccine technology transfer center to open in South Africa

Associated Press  

JOHANNESBURG — The World Health Organization is in talks to create the first-ever technology transfer hub for coronavirus vaccines in South Africa, a move to boost supply to the continent that’s desperately in need of COVID-19 shots, the head of the U.N. agency announced. Africa will soon be able to “take responsibility for the health of our people,” as a …

AP Interview: India says it hopes to resume vaccine exports
3 years, 6 months ago

AP Interview: India says it hopes to resume vaccine exports

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — India, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, wants to resume exports of coronavirus jabs but can’t do so until its domestic needs are met, the head of the country’s COVID-19 task force said Friday. “Once our immediate need of vaccinating a significant proportion of Indian people is achieved and vaccine stockpiles are visible from multiple sources, we …

After an Unviable Experiment, Vaccine Recentralisation Will Rejuvenate India's Covid Battle
3 years, 6 months ago

After an Unviable Experiment, Vaccine Recentralisation Will Rejuvenate India's Covid Battle

News 18  

India is on the cusp of administering 25 crore Covid-19 jabs this week, more than the population of every other country in the world except Indonesia, the United States of America and, of course, China. On June 7, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation confirmed that the central government will provide free vaccines to all Indian …

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