UN to rich nations: Don’t undermine COVAX vaccine program
3 years, 10 months ago

UN to rich nations: Don’t undermine COVAX vaccine program

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization pleaded with rich countries on Monday to check before ordering additional COVID-19 vaccine shots for themselves whether that undermines efforts to get vaccine shots to poorer nations. But he said after talks Monday with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier that “even if you have the money, if you cannot use the money to buy vaccines … having the money doesn’t mean anything.” He said some rich countries’ approaches to manufacturers to secure more vaccines are “affecting the deals with COVAX, and even the amount that was allocated for COVAX was reduced because of this.” He didn’t name those countries or give other details. Tedros added that rich countries need to “cooperate in respecting the deals that COVAX did” and make sure before they seek more vaccines that their requests don’t undermine those deals. Tedros, who has previously warned that the world faces a “catastrophic moral failure” if COVID-19 vaccines are not distributed fairly, said he understands the political pressures that leaders in high-income countries face. Joining Tedros at the WHO news conference, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, acknowledged such questions were “always a sensitive issue.” Fauci cited the example of the U.S. government’s AIDS program, which helped balance manufacturer profits with developing countries’ access to drugs.

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Draft WHO pandemic deal pushes for equity to avoid COVID ’failure’ repeat
1 year, 11 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 …

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic
2 years, 3 months ago

GAVI financing to allow for immediate funds for next pandemic

Live Mint  

Global vaccine alliance GAVI has set up financial instruments that will allow the group to immediately access pledged donor funding if it needs to buy vaccines for future pandemics, Chief Executive Seth Berkley told Reuters. Berkley said that in 2020 and 2021, GAVI was limited in its ability to buy COVID-19 vaccines because even though donors had committed $2.4 billion, …

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
2 years, 6 months ago

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears

Associated Press  

LONDON — The World Health Organization said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. WHO’s Europe director, Dr. Hans Kluge, said Wednesday he was concerned by the scramble by some rich countries to buy more vaccines without talk of buying supplies for Africa. Kluge urged governments “to approach …

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
2 years, 6 months ago

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears

The Hindu  

The World Health Organisation said it's creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. WHO's Europe director, Hans Kluge, said on June 15 he was concerned by the scramble by some rich countries to buy more vaccines without talk of buying supplies for Africa. Mr. Kluge urged governments "to approach …

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears
2 years, 6 months ago

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears

LA Times  

These mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and immature, spherical virions, right, were obtained from a person infected during a 2003 outbreak. The World Health Organization said it’s creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. The WHO has described the outbreak as “unusual” and said the virus’ continuing spread was …

Pfizer to offer low-cost drugs to 45 lower-income nations
2 years, 7 months ago

Pfizer to offer low-cost drugs to 45 lower-income nations

Al Jazeera  

US pharmaceutical giant says it will sell patented drugs on a not-for-profit basis to world’s poorest countries. US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has said it would sell its patented drugs on a not-for-profit basis to the world’s poorest countries, as part of a new initiative announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “An Accord for a Healthier World” focuses on …

Africa's COVID vaccine production line in jeopardy
2 years, 7 months ago

Africa's COVID vaccine production line in jeopardy

The Hindu  

Trisha shakes her head when asked if she's vaccinated. 'A massive setback for Africa's plans' In the absence of orders or commitments, Aspen is considering the repurposing of two COVID-19 production lines for the manufacture of other products. "The continent would lose its only existing COVID vaccine manufacturing capacity," Nicolaou says. Africa's major public health body, the Africa Centers for …

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic
2 years, 9 months ago

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic

LA Times  

In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders — a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted. He said Uganda has leaned heavily on donor help — it received more than 11 million vaccines from the U.S. — and that any cuts “would make …

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones despite U.N.-backed initiative
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones despite U.N.-backed initiative

LA Times  

A worker moves boxes carrying Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine at SK Bioscience Co. in Andong, South Korea, on Feb. 9. Novavax, the company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world, will miss a target for giving doses to a U.N.-backed effort to supply shots to poorer countries. The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as …

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones
2 years, 9 months ago

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic. The company, Novavax, got $388 million from one …

‘Omicron a Self-Inflicted Wound’: Patent-Free Corbevax Can Help End Covid Pandemic, Believe Its Makers
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Omicron a Self-Inflicted Wound’: Patent-Free Corbevax Can Help End Covid Pandemic, Believe Its Makers

News 18  

“When your house is on fire, you call the fire department not lawyers,” that’s how American scientist Prof. Peter Hotez explained the importance of patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines. Professor Hotez in an exclusive interview to CNN News-18 said he along with Dr Maria Elena Bottazzi developed Corbevax and kept patents off the table to “help lower- and middle-income countries …

Poorer nations reject over 100 million Covid shots as many close to expiry
2 years, 11 months ago

Poorer nations reject over 100 million Covid shots as many close to expiry

India Today  

Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme COVAX, mainly due to their rapid expiry date, a UNICEF official said on Thursday. UNICEF's data on supplies and use of delivered vaccines show that 681 million shipped doses are currently stored in about 90 poorer nations, according to CARE, a charity, …

This new, low-cost COVID-19 vaccine could be a game changer for low-income countries
3 years ago

This new, low-cost COVID-19 vaccine could be a game changer for low-income countries

NPR  

This new, low-cost COVID-19 vaccine could be a game changer for low-income countries A low cost vaccine called Corbevax may help solve the problem of getting safe and effective COVID vaccines to poor and middle-income countries. Supply and cost have been barriers to getting vaccines to many parts of the world, but NPR's Joe Palca has this story about a …

WHO approves Serum Institute's Covovax for emergency approval
3 years ago

WHO approves Serum Institute's Covovax for emergency approval

Op India  

The World Health Organisation on Friday approved the emergency use for Serum Institute of India’s Covovax, vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India in partnership with the US-based Novavax, for showing excellent safety and efficacy. With this approval, Covovax became the 9th Covid-19 vaccine to be permitted for emergency use, providing a boost to ongoing efforts to vaccinate more …

Israel to donate 1 million vaccine doses to African countries
3 years ago

Israel to donate 1 million vaccine doses to African countries

India Today  

In the coming weeks, the State of Israel will distribute one million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to African countries through the International Covax Vaccine Distribution Mechanism. While Corona vaccines aren’t distributed across the entire world in order to defeat the pandemic, new Corona variants will develop in areas where vaccination rates are low," Israel foreign minister Yair Lapid said. Covax is …

WHO warns fears of omicron could spark new vaccine hoarding
3 years, 1 month 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, 1 month 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 …

Variants, boosters turn rich-poor vaccine gap into chasm
3 years, 1 month ago

Variants, boosters turn rich-poor vaccine gap into chasm

Associated Press  

PARIS — The global initiative to share coronavirus vaccines fairly already scaled back its pledge to the world’s poor once. Now, to meet even that limited promise, COVAX would have to deliver more than a million doses every hour until the end of the year in some of the world’s most challenging places. COVAX’s new promise is for 1.4 billion …

Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic
3 years, 1 month 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 …

Prospects of intellectual-property waiver on Covid-19 vaccines fade
3 years, 1 month ago

Prospects of intellectual-property waiver on Covid-19 vaccines fade

Live Mint  

An agreement to waive the intellectual-property rights underpinning Covid-19 vaccines—a prospect poor countries have hoped would ease supplies to the developing world—is becoming increasingly unlikely, say people familiar with the situation, with the U.S. not acting to bridge disagreements between developing world countries and those opposing such a measure. However, people close to the negotiations at the World Trade Organization, …

Merck Covid pill: Asian countries are rushing to buy molnupiravir but poor countries could miss out
3 years, 2 months ago

Merck Covid pill: Asian countries are rushing to buy molnupiravir but poor countries could miss out

CNN  

CNN — During the global scramble to secure vaccines, many countries in Asia-Pacific were slow off the mark. “This is a game changer.” What the Covid pill means for vaccines Vaccines are still the best protection, say experts – after all, they can reduce the risk of a person getting Covid-19 at all. “This drug will be a frontline solution …

UN calls for $8bn to redress world COVID vaccine imbalance
3 years, 3 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 …

In a First, Global Vaccine Scheme Covax to Send Covid Shots Only to Least Covered Nations
3 years, 3 months ago

In a First, Global Vaccine Scheme Covax to Send Covid Shots Only to Least Covered Nations

News 18  

A global scheme designed to ensure fair access to Covid-19 vaccines will this month for the first time distribute shots only to countries with the lowest levels of coverage, World Health Organization said. This made some richer nations that had already secured vaccines through separate deals with pharmaceutical firms eligible for Covax doses alongside countries with no supplies at all. …

''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 …

Biden doubles US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden doubles US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots

Associated Press  

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer’s COVID-19 shots to share with the world to 1 billion doses as he embraces the goal of vaccinating 70% of the global population within the next year. He added that with the new commitments, “For every one shot we’ve administered to date in America, we …

Amnesty blames top COVID jab makers for vaccine inequality
3 years, 3 months ago

Amnesty blames top COVID jab makers for vaccine inequality

Al Jazeera  

Amnesty International says six leading COVID jab manufacturers are ‘wheeling and dealing in favour of wealthy states’. Six top manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine “are fuelling an unprecedented human rights crisis through their refusal to waive intellectual property rights and share vaccine technology”, Amnesty International said in a report. But instead, to their shame and our collective grief, Big Pharma’s …

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 …

WHO, partners aim to get Africa 30% of needed doses by Feb
3 years, 3 months ago

WHO, partners aim to get Africa 30% of needed doses by Feb

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The World Health Organization and its partners said they hope to provide Africa with about 30% of the COVID-19 vaccines the continent needs by February, badly missing the 60% vaccination coverage goal that African leaders had once hoped for this year. At a press briefing Tuesday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the massive disparity in vaccination rates …

WHO aims for 30 percent of needed Africa COVID jabs by February
3 years, 3 months ago

WHO aims for 30 percent of needed Africa COVID jabs by February

Al Jazeera  

The WHO and its partners hope to provide Africa with about 30 percent of vaccines by February. The World Health Organization and its partners have said they hope to provide Africa with about 30 percent of the COVID-19 vaccines the continent needs by February, badly missing the 60 percent vaccination coverage goal that African leaders had once hoped for this …

Vaccine Alliance Expects to Ship 1.4 billion Doses to Low Income Countries
3 years, 4 months ago

Vaccine Alliance Expects to Ship 1.4 billion Doses to Low Income Countries

News 18  

The U.N.-backed program to get vaccines to the neediest people in the world has again scaled back its target to ship doses this year, projecting about 1.4 billion doses will available through by the end of the year. Still, Gavi says COVAX deliveries are ramping up significantly and another 1.1 billion doses are expected to become available beyond the 330 …

Rich countries to have 1.2bn surplus COVID vaccine doses
3 years, 4 months ago

Rich countries to have 1.2bn surplus COVID vaccine doses

Al Jazeera  

By end of 2021, rich countries will have 1.2 billion doses of vaccine shots not earmarked for donations. Wealthy countries could potentially have a surplus of more than one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses available by the end of the year that are not designated as donations to poorer nations, according to a new analysis Vaccine stock in Western countries has …

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. …

Rich nations dip into COVAX supply while poor wait for shots
3 years, 4 months ago

Rich nations dip into COVAX supply while poor wait for shots

Associated Press  

LONDON — An international system to share coronavirus vaccines was supposed to guarantee that low and middle-income countries could get doses without being last in line and at the mercy of unreliable donations. At a subsequent meeting with partners, Gavi CEO Dr. Seth Berkley said COVAX intended to honor the agreements it had made with rich countries but would ask …

Back of the line: Charity only goes so far in world vaccines
3 years, 4 months ago

Back of the line: Charity only goes so far in world vaccines

Associated Press  

LONDON — When global health officials created COVAX, a U.N.-backed effort to share coronavirus vaccines, it was supposed to guarantee the world’s most vulnerable people could get doses without being at the mercy of unreliable donations. But they decided against blocking rich countries from getting more vaccines, reasoning that without them, “it would be difficult to secure deals with some …

Head of UN health agency seeks vaccine booster moratorium
3 years, 5 months ago

Head of UN health agency seeks vaccine booster moratorium

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization called Wednesday for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first shots. Dr. Katherine O’Brien, WHO’s vaccines chief, noted that a “very limited number” of countries were giving booster doses though …

Call to allow developing countries to produce Covid vaccines, amid fears of new variants
3 years, 5 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 …

Wealthy nations ‘far from targets’ on COVID vaccine donations
3 years, 5 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 …

Vaccine inequalty: African countries to receive six million Johnson and Johnson vaccines
3 years, 5 months ago

Vaccine inequalty: African countries to receive six million Johnson and Johnson vaccines

CNN  

CNN — Around six million doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine will be delivered by the African Union to 27 African nations that have paid for the shipments through the end of August, an AU special envoy said on Thursday. Local vaccine production ‘the answer’ The balance of Africa’s vaccine requirements will come from donors including COVAX, …

Vaccine inequality deepening, at home, and across the world
3 years, 5 months ago

Vaccine inequality deepening, at home, and across the world

Live Mint  

The World Health Organization-backed Covax initiative was aimed at ensuring that poor countries would be able to access vaccines easily. This includes 16 million doses to 24 countries that would be categorized as low income by World Bank criteria, 114 million vaccines to 90 middle-income countries, and 6 million to 21 high-income countries. However, adjusted for population, while the high-income …

EXPLAINED: Centre Has Cleared Moderna, Then Why Is Vax Still Stuck In The Pipeline?
3 years, 5 months ago

EXPLAINED: Centre Has Cleared Moderna, Then Why Is Vax Still Stuck In The Pipeline?

News 18  

Seventy-five lakh doses of the Moderna vaccine are reportedly ready to be shipped to India under the COVAX programme. According to news agency PTI, sources have said that “the talks are still on and a consensus on the indemnity issue is yet to be reached” with Moderna, whose mRNA vaccine has already received emergency use nod in India. No vaccines …

Africa’s vaccine crisis: It’s not all about corruption
3 years, 5 months ago

Africa’s vaccine crisis: It’s not all about corruption

Al Jazeera  

The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll across the world, with many countries reporting higher than ever numbers of infections and hospitalisations. As of July 2021, only 25.3 percent of the world’s population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and of the 3.4 billion doses that have been administered worldwide, only one …

Vaccine inequity: Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses
3 years, 5 months ago

Vaccine inequity: Inside the cutthroat race to secure doses

Associated Press  

PARIS — No one disputes that the world is unfair. “But the whole idea was that we thought rich countries would fund it for the developing world.” Happi said officials never expected the pandemic would strike first and hardest in Europe and the U.S. Or that their assessment of preparedness in the world’s most advanced economies would prove horrifically optimistic. …

India Pulled Back Global Supply of COVAX Due to Surge of Cases Inside the Country: USAID Administrator
3 years, 5 months ago

India Pulled Back Global Supply of COVAX Due to Surge of Cases Inside the Country: USAID Administrator

News 18  

India pulled back its supply of vaccines to the rest of the world after the second wave of pandemic hit the country, resulting in acute global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, the Biden Administration has informed the lawmakers. When the Delta variant is raging around the world and supply is lacking globally because the Serum Institute of India pulled back hundreds …

11 billion doses needed to end COVID-19: UN chief stresses on Global Vaccination Plan
3 years, 5 months ago

11 billion doses needed to end COVID-19: UN chief stresses on Global Vaccination Plan

India TV News  

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that 11 billion doses are needed to vaccinate 70 per cent of the world to end the Covid-19 pandemic. We need at least 11 billion doses to vaccinate 70 per cent of the world and end this pandemic," the UN chief told the opening of the ministerial segment of the High-level Political Forum …

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 …

WHO asks vaccine makers to prioritize doses for poor countries over booster shots
3 years, 5 months ago

WHO asks vaccine makers to prioritize doses for poor countries over booster shots

LA Times  

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says COVID-19 vaccine makers should send doses to poor countries instead of pushing for booster shots in rich ones. Last week, Pfizer said it would seek authorization for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying a booster shot could dramatically boost immunity and perhaps help ward off worrisome variants. Pfizer’s Dr. Mikael Dolsten said …

Africa’s COVID-19 envoy blasts EU, COVAX over vaccine crisis
3 years, 6 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 …

India toughens stand on EU COVID passport
3 years, 6 months ago

India toughens stand on EU COVID passport

The Hindu  

India took issue with the European Union’s plans to institute a “green pass” from July 1, with government sources warning that India will introduce a “reciprocal policy” only allowing ease of travel for those European countries that recognise Indian vaccines Covishield and Covaxin. The latest twist to the controversy of the European Union’s Digital Covid Certificate came a day after …

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