IMF says coronavirus crisis far from over, calls for more economic support
4 years, 3 months ago

IMF says coronavirus crisis far from over, calls for more economic support

India Today  

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday warned that the coronavirus crisis was “far from over” and underscored the need for multilateral cooperation to ensure adequate supplies once a vaccine is developed. In an essay published in Foreign Policy magazine, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and chief economist Gita Gopinath said the ongoing economic recovery from the crisis was the result of the rapid implementation and unprecedented scale of government and central bank support, but more efforts would be needed. Read | India’s inflation in August likely to remain above RBI's target range: Poll COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus has killed 900,000 worldwide, and the IMF estimates the total cost of the crisis will reach $12 trillion by the end of 2021, with low-income countries likely to need continued support. In addition to supporting workers and businesses, and investing to arrest global warming and reverse rising inequality, the IMF leaders said governments must cooperate internationally to bring the health crisis to an end. “An uneven rollout might improve economic conditions in countries that secured the vaccine first but would not shield them from weak demand from trade partners struggling to recover without a vaccine.” Also Read | Govt spending declines even as Indian economy remains in reverse gear

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Draft WHO pandemic deal pushes for equity to avoid COVID ’failure’ repeat
1 year, 10 months ago

Draft WHO pandemic deal pushes for equity to avoid COVID ’failure’ repeat

Live Mint  

Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the "catastrophic failure" during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an early draft of a global pandemic agreement. The draft also retains earlier provisions that could see pharmaceutical companies made to release details of any public contracts for …

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 …

Fight to end virus pandemic takes place on UN’s sidelines
2 years, 3 months ago

Fight to end virus pandemic takes place on UN’s sidelines

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — In four days of fiery speeches over war, climate change and the threat of nuclear weapons, one issue felt like an afterthought during this year’s U.N. General Assembly: the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gathered with World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and others to discuss equitable access …

UN official urges acceleration in coronavirus vaccinations
2 years, 8 months ago

UN official urges acceleration in coronavirus vaccinations

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. official spearheading global vaccination efforts against the coronavirus said Monday the number of countries where 10% or less of the population has been vaccinated dropped from 34 to 18 since January and called for accelerated progress to end the pandemic. Assistant Secretary-General Ted Chaiban told the U.N. Security Council that with over 6 million lives …

WHO recommends countries ease COVID measures 'in steady, slow way'
2 years, 10 months ago

WHO recommends countries ease COVID measures 'in steady, slow way'

India TV News  

Highlights WHO has called on countries that are starting to lift Covid-19 measures WHO asked them to do it in steady way, as there's a sharp increase in covid deaths around globe It's premature for any country either to surrender or to declare victory: WHO Director Tedros The World Health Organization has called on countries that are starting to lift …

Failure to vaccinate everyone will give rise to new variants, warns UN chief Antonio Guterres
2 years, 11 months ago

Failure to vaccinate everyone will give rise to new variants, warns UN chief Antonio Guterres

Firstpost  

Guterres, in his virtual remarks to the opening of the 2022 World Economic Forum, said: The last two years have demonstrated a simple but brutal truth if we leave anyone behind, we leave everyone behind". United Nations: Giving a clarion call to world leaders to make 2022 a “true moment of recovery”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said that …

Failure to vaccinate everyone will give rise to new variants: UN chief
2 years, 11 months ago

Failure to vaccinate everyone will give rise to new variants: UN chief

India Today  

Giving a clarion call to world leaders to make 2022 a "true moment of recovery", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said that the Covid-19 pandemic has to be confronted with equity and fairness, cautioning that failure to vaccinate every person will give rise to new variants that will bring daily life and economies to a grinding halt. "If we …

For the 36 countries with the lowest vaccination rates, supply isn't the only issue
2 years, 11 months ago

For the 36 countries with the lowest vaccination rates, supply isn't the only issue

NPR  

For the 36 countries with the lowest vaccination rates, supply isn't the only issue In the United States and many other wealthy countries, you can get a free COVID vaccine at supermarkets, pharmacies and clinics. toggle caption AFP via Getty Images Why Africa lags so far behind Maaza Seyoum with the African Alliance, a South Africa-based advocacy group, says there …

US pledges $580m to international COVID fight amid Omicron spread
3 years ago

US pledges $580m to international COVID fight amid Omicron spread

Al Jazeera  

The announcement comes as the Biden administration released a raft of measures aimed at ramping up domestic response. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the announcement on Tuesday, shortly before he said he is set to meet his counterparts from other countries to discuss global cooperation in responding to Omicron, which officials say has already become the dominant strain …

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 …

IMF chief warns Omicron COVID-19 variant could slow global growth
3 years ago

IMF chief warns Omicron COVID-19 variant could slow global growth

Firstpost  

The IMF’s most-recent forecasts raised concerns that global supply chain issues and uneven distribution of vaccines were slowing the rebound, and causing some countries to be left behind Washington: The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 could slow the global economic recovery, just as the Delta strain did, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said Friday. “A new variant that may …

As rich-poor divide widens between nations, UN urges reform
3 years, 3 months ago

As rich-poor divide widens between nations, UN urges reform

Al Jazeera  

Developing countries could shoulder most of the cost of the coronavirus crisis, a new report from the UN warns. “The danger of a lost decade ahead remains a very real one,” Richard Kozul-Wright, UNCTAD’s director of globalisation and development strategies, told Al Jazeera. “And so far, the discussion of reform of the multilateral system, along the lines that followed the …

More vaccine donations are urgently needed in the Americas: PAHO
3 years, 3 months ago

More vaccine donations are urgently needed in the Americas: PAHO

Al Jazeera  

At least 540 million doses are required to vaccinate at least 60 percent of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. During a weekly news briefing, PAHO Director Carissa Etienne said 540 million doses are required to ensure that every country in the Americas can vaccinate at least 60 percent of their population. “We must expand vaccine access in our …

Wealthy nations ‘far from targets’ on COVID vaccine donations
3 years, 4 months ago

Wealthy nations ‘far from targets’ on COVID vaccine donations

Al Jazeera  

An expert independent panel monitoring the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic says wealthy nations have not done enough to transfer COVID-19 vaccines to developing nations where they are desperately needed as the Delta variant drives a new wave of disease around the world, In May, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, called for the reallocation of one …

Uneven COVID-19 vaccine distribution may hamper economic recovery in developing nations: IMF
3 years, 4 months ago

Uneven COVID-19 vaccine distribution may hamper economic recovery in developing nations: IMF

Firstpost  

IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath flagged the “widening gap” as advanced economies grow faster and developing nations, especially in Asia, slow. World GDP will expand by six percent this year, unchanged from the April forecast, but IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath flagged the “widening gap” as advanced economies grow faster and developing nations, especially in Asia, slow. The Washington-based crisis …

July 12, 2021 coronavirus news
3 years, 5 months ago

July 12, 2021 coronavirus news

CNN  

World Health Organization leaders asked wealthy countries on Monday to hold off on giving booster doses of coronavirus vaccines to their residents before people in other countries can even get their first doses. “Some countries and regions are actually ordering millions of booster doses before other countries have had supplies to vaccinate their health workers and most vulnerable,” WHO Director-General …

Govt taking steps to ensure supply of vaccines from overseas: MEA
3 years, 6 months ago

Govt taking steps to ensure supply of vaccines from overseas: MEA

India Today  

The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that the Centre has taken series of steps to ensure an adequate supply of Covid-19 vaccines from overseas. Stating that the country has been at the forefront of extending a helping hand, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, "The government is making all efforts to augment the supply of vaccines, whether through enhanced …

Close the vaccination gap, in global lockstep
3 years, 6 months ago

Close the vaccination gap, in global lockstep

The Hindu  

By the end of May 2021, only 2.1% of Africans had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. We need to close the vaccination gap between advanced economies and developing countries to avoid what the World Health Organization Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu has called “vaccination apartheid”. Our European industrial partners have committed to deliver 1.3 billion doses …

Heads of four global organisations appeal to world leaders for COVID-19 vaccine equality
3 years, 6 months ago

Heads of four global organisations appeal to world leaders for COVID-19 vaccine equality

Firstpost  

WHO, World Bank, IMF, and WTO blamed gaps in vaccination programs for the emergence of virus variants that fuelled fresh outbreaks in developing countries. World leaders must make a “new commitment” to a more equal distribution of coronavirus vaccines to bring the pandemic under control, the heads of four major global organisations said Tuesday. The cash injections “would help us …

Sustaining and scaling up the response to Covid is key to saving lives
3 years, 6 months ago

Sustaining and scaling up the response to Covid is key to saving lives

Hindustan Times  

The World Health Organization South-East Asia Region has, in recent months, witnessed a sharp and sustained surge of SARS-CoV2 infection. Essential health services must continue to be maintained to ensure that all people can access the services they require to stay healthy and well. Amid ongoing supply challenges, countries should optimise the use of available doses to expand protection among …

Global supply of COVAX hit due to coronavirus crisis in India, USAID tells lawmakers
3 years, 6 months ago

Global supply of COVAX hit due to coronavirus crisis in India, USAID tells lawmakers

India TV News  

Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis in India, the global supply of COVAX has been badly hit, so much so that there are many parts of the world where one shot has been dispensed to health workers or frontline workers and the second shot has not been forthcoming, a top Biden administration official told lawmakers on Thursday. "COVAX has suffered …

India's COVID-19 crisis: S Jaishankar and Antonio Guterres discuss ramping up global vaccine supply and production
3 years, 6 months ago

India's COVID-19 crisis: S Jaishankar and Antonio Guterres discuss ramping up global vaccine supply and production

Firstpost  

The external affairs minister’s meeting with UN secretary-general comes at a time when India is reeling under a second wave of COVID-19 United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday held a comprehensive in-person meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and discussed the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and underlined the importance of finding an “urgent and …

Covid Crisis in India a Warning of Possible Events in Other Low and Middle-income Countries: IMF
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid Crisis in India a Warning of Possible Events in Other Low and Middle-income Countries: IMF

News 18  

Observing that the ongoing “catastrophic” second wave of COVID-19 in India is a sign that the worst may be yet to come, the IMF has said that the situation in the country is a warning of the possible events in low- and middle-income nations that have seemingly escaped the pandemic till now. For India, the report said, current bilateral purchases …

IMF proposes USD 50 billion global vaccination plan
3 years, 7 months ago

IMF proposes USD 50 billion global vaccination plan

India TV News  

The International Monetary Fund has proposed a USD 50 billion global vaccination plan that would cover at least 40 percent of the global population by the end of 2021 and at least 60 percent by the first half of 2022. With strong and coordinated action now—and with little in terms of financing relative to the outsized benefits—the world can durably …

Vaccine supply on agenda as EAM Jaishankar heads to US for five-day visit
3 years, 7 months ago

Vaccine supply on agenda as EAM Jaishankar heads to US for five-day visit

India Today  

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will begin a five-day visit to the United States from Monday with a focus on procurement of coronavirus vaccines from American companies as well as exploring the possibility of their joint production. The Ministry of External Affairs said Jaishankar will hold discussions with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken besides meeting senior officials of the …

Will global tender for Covid-19 vaccines by states help?
3 years, 7 months ago

Will global tender for Covid-19 vaccines by states help?

India Today  

About a dozen states have opted for floating global tenders to procure Covid-19 vaccines. Only three Covid-19 vaccines have been approved by the DCGI — Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V. Of these, Covishield-maker Serum Institute of India is the largest vaccine producer and is based in India. It is unlikely that AstraZeneca, which has a partner in India, will enter …

World could have prevented COVID-19 catastrophe: Expert panel
3 years, 7 months ago

World could have prevented COVID-19 catastrophe: Expert panel

Al Jazeera  

Report by Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response says ‘toxic cocktail’ of dithering and poor coordination means warning signs went unheeded. An independent panel has concluded that the catastrophic scale of the coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented but a “toxic cocktail” of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded. Early responses to the outbreak detected …

Covid-19 vaccine deserts: Some countries have no jabs at all
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 vaccine deserts: Some countries have no jabs at all

India Today  

At the small hospital where Dr. Oumaima Djarma works in Chad’s capital, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best. The first vaccine that comes along that has authorization, I will take it.” While wealthier nations have stockpiled vaccines for their citizens, many poorer countries are still scrambling to secure doses. While the total of confirmed COVID-19 …

IMF to Revisit Growth Forecast for India Due to Surge In Covid-19 cases
3 years, 7 months ago

IMF to Revisit Growth Forecast for India Due to Surge In Covid-19 cases

News 18  

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that a multilateral response is critical to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic in India and globally as it hailed recent announcements by several countries to provide immediate support to India. Over 40 countries have committed to provide India urgently required medical supplies like oxygen-related equipment and critical medicines to help it deal with an …

The US secured 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Medical ethicists say it should share with other countries
3 years, 7 months ago

The US secured 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Medical ethicists say it should share with other countries

CNN  

CNN — With the coronavirus pandemic spiraling out of control in India and other developing regions, the United States this week committed to sharing 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other countries. “I do believe that the US is obligated to share vaccines with other countries,” said Keisha Ray, an assistant professor and bioethicist at UTHealth McGovern Medical …

MSF urges rich countries to back COVID vaccine patent waiver
3 years, 8 months ago

MSF urges rich countries to back COVID vaccine patent waiver

Al Jazeera  

International medical charity Doctors Without Borders has urged rich countries to stop blocking a patent waiver plan that could boost the global production of coronavirus vaccines. Sponsors of the waiver argue that the temporary suspension would allow more factories worldwide to produce jabs without breaking international rules under the WTO agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. It is …

Global COVID-19 infection rate approaching highest, says WHO
3 years, 8 months ago

Global COVID-19 infection rate approaching highest, says WHO

India TV News  

The number of new COVID-19 cases per week worldwide has nearly doubled over the past two months, approaching the highest infection rate seen so far during the pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Friday. He attributed the alarming increase to rapidly spreading variants, inconsistent use and premature easing of public health measures, fatigue of populations with social restrictions, and …

Brazil’s virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags
3 years, 8 months ago

Brazil’s virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags

Associated Press  

RIO DE JANEIRO — April is shaping up to be Brazil’s darkest month yet in the pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and few signs of a reprieve from a troubled vaccination program in Latin America’s largest nation. Stalled supplies of the AstraZeneca vaccine in January amid pressure for Brazil to …

IMF, World Bank urged to ensure timely delivery of COVID-19 vaccines across nations
3 years, 8 months ago

IMF, World Bank urged to ensure timely delivery of COVID-19 vaccines across nations

India TV News  

Asserting that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for years, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been urged to ensure timely delivery of safe and effective vaccines across all countries. Developing countries need to strengthen their readiness for vaccination campaigns and develop coordinated strategies to reach vulnerable populations," a joint ministerial committee of the …

Covid-19 Pandemic Leaving Behind Complex Legacies That Will Need to Be Tackled: IMF Official
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 Pandemic Leaving Behind Complex Legacies That Will Need to Be Tackled: IMF Official

News 18  

The Covid-19 pandemic is leaving behind complex legacies that will need to be tackled, a top IMF official said on Wednesday, as he underlined the need for policies that must remain agile and respond flexibly as the situation may require. Covid-19 is leaving behind complex legacies that will need to be tackled, he said. The report said that policymakers need …

Coronavirus lays bare social inequality, warns UN chief Guterres'
3 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus lays bare social inequality, warns UN chief Guterres'

India TV News  

The Covid-19 crisis "has revealed how unequal our societies are," said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' in his message released on Monday for World Health Day. Highlighting the inequalities and injustices that have been apparent throughout the pandemic, the UN chief said in his message for the day to be marked on Wednesday that the vast majority of vaccine doses …

Covid-19: World leaders unite to call for pandemic treaty, saying: ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’
3 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19: World leaders unite to call for pandemic treaty, saying: ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’

CNN  

CNN — Global leaders have called for a new treaty to help the world prepare for future pandemics, in a warning against rising vaccine nationalism. More than 20 national leaders, including France’s Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s Boris Johnson and Germany’s Angela Merkel, wrote a piece published in several media outlets on Tuesday warning that it is a question of “not if, …

Share COVID-19 vaccines, don't stockpile them: UN Secretary-General tells developed counties
3 years, 8 months ago

Share COVID-19 vaccines, don't stockpile them: UN Secretary-General tells developed counties

Firstpost  

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized developed countries for creating a “stockpile” of Covid-19 vaccines, and called on them to share with the rest of the world to help end the pandemic. “I’m very concerned with this very unfair distribution of vaccines in the world,” Guterres said in an interview broadcast Sunday by the Canadian channel CBC. “It’s in the interest …

Nation offers vaccine assistance to 80 countries
3 years, 9 months ago

Nation offers vaccine assistance to 80 countries

China Daily  

The first batch of Chinese-donated COVID-19 vaccine doses is unloaded from a plane at Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe on Feb 15, 2021. China is providing and will offer vaccine assistance to 80 countries and three international organizations, the first large-scale assistance of its kind, the country's International Development Cooperation Agency said on Friday. China has acted swiftly …

Nobel Prize economists call for vaccine equity and debt relief
3 years, 9 months ago

Nobel Prize economists call for vaccine equity and debt relief

Al Jazeera  

Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence are spearheading calls for urgent action to help poorer countries recover from the economic ravages of the coronavirus pandemic. Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence are spearheading calls for urgent action to help poorer countries recover from the economic ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, including measures to advance vaccine equity, …

Developing nations demand equal access to coronavirus vaccines
3 years, 9 months ago

Developing nations demand equal access to coronavirus vaccines

Al Jazeera  

South Africa, India, and more than 100 other nations have called on the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines, saying they are being prevented from immunising their people. Endorsing requests for a waiver, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said earlier this month: “If a temporary waiver to patents cannot be issued now, during these unprecedented times, …

World Bank Readies Covid-19 Vaccine Funds for Around 30 African Countries
3 years, 9 months ago

World Bank Readies Covid-19 Vaccine Funds for Around 30 African Countries

News 18  

The World Bank is preparing emergency financing to help about 30 African countries access COVID-19 vaccines, the global lender told Reuters, as the continent scrambles to secure doses and start immunising vulnerable groups. The World Bank said financing projects were being prepared in African countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Mozambique, Tunisia, eSwatini, Rwanda and Senegal, without …

'Premature, unrealistic' to think Covid pandemic will be stopped by end of 2021: WHO
3 years, 9 months ago

'Premature, unrealistic' to think Covid pandemic will be stopped by end of 2021: WHO

India Today  

A senior World Health Organization official said Monday it was "premature" and "unrealistic" to think the pandemic might be stopped by the end of the year, but that the recent arrival of effective vaccines could at least help dramatically reduce hospitalizations and death. WHO's director-general, meanwhile, said it was "regrettable" that younger and healthier adults in some rich countries are …

A call for global vaccine justice
3 years, 10 months ago

A call for global vaccine justice

Al Jazeera  

Only a truly global vaccination strategy can ensure equal value is placed on the lives of the rich and the poor. As wealthy countries roll out domestic vaccination plans, emerging COVID-19 variants threaten their success: recent data suggest that several vaccines currently in use may provide reduced efficacy against new variants. Towards this end, we must take three urgent steps: …

Vaccine nationalism: Why hoarding COVID jabs may prolong pandemic
3 years, 10 months ago

Vaccine nationalism: Why hoarding COVID jabs may prolong pandemic

Al Jazeera  

United Nations chief has criticised global distribution, noting that 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccine doses. In his address to the UN Security Council, Guterres slammed the global distribution of vaccines as “wildly uneven and unfair”, noting that 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccine doses. On Friday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to …

UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access
3 years, 10 months ago

UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, saying 10 countries have administered 75 percent of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get all people in every nation vaccinated as soon as possible. He said the task force should have the capacity “to mobilize the pharmaceutical …

Opinion: To stop the global pandemic, rich countries need to stop hoarding vaccines
3 years, 10 months ago

Opinion: To stop the global pandemic, rich countries need to stop hoarding vaccines

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Stephen Cockburn is head of economic and social justice at Amnesty International. In response, European officials have introduced temporary export restrictions on vaccines produced in its territories, giving member states the option of limiting exports outside the EU to countries like the UK, the United States and even South Africa. This is according to analysis in December 2020 …

Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines
3 years, 10 months ago

Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — With coronavirus cases still climbing, Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations program, so the small Central American country struck out on its own, securing the shots through a private deal. Countries including Serbia, Bangladesh and Mexico recently began vaccinating citizens through donations or commercial deals — an approach that could leave …

Coronavirus | Serum Institute of India, UNICEF enter into long-term supply pact for COVID-19 vaccines
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus | Serum Institute of India, UNICEF enter into long-term supply pact for COVID-19 vaccines

The Hindu  

The Serum Institute of India and UNICEF have entered into a long-term supply agreement for the AstraZeneca/Oxford and the Novavax vaccines, with the UN children’s agency saying it will have access to up to 1.1 billion doses of vaccines for around 100 countries. While Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield is being manufactured by Pune-based Serum Institute, and the Novavax is being produced by …

Rich countries hoarding COVID-19 vaccines, says South African President Ramaphosa
3 years, 10 months ago

Rich countries hoarding COVID-19 vaccines, says South African President Ramaphosa

The Hindu  

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday accused rich countries of “hoarding” coronavirus vaccines “The rich countries of the world went out and acquired large doses of vaccines from developers and manufacturers, and some countries have even gone beyond and acquired four times what their population needs,” he said. “There’s just no need for a country, which perhaps has 40 …

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