As the Trudeau government is forced to explain delays rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, some of the world's economic and health leaders are warning of catastrophic financial consequences if poorer countries are shortchanged on vaccinations.
The leaders of the World Health Organization and others also bemoaned the long-term damage of continued vaccine nationalism if current trends continue rich countries getting a pandemic cure at a much higher rate than poorer ones.
It was a message that could provide some political cover for the Liberals, who have been widely criticized for shortfalls in deliveries of vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna while also facing international criticism for pre-buying enough doses of vaccines to cover Canada s population several times over.
Some international anti-poverty groups have also criticized Canada for planning to take delivery of 1.9 million doses from the COVAX Facility, a new international vaccine-sharing program that is primarily designed to help poor countries afford unaffordable vaccines, but also allows rich donor countries including Canada to receive vaccines.
Ευρωκίνηση 2/3/2021 The National Herald
ATHENS - Over vehement protests from college students who don’t want time limits on graduating, Greece’s New Democracy government will give them up to nine years to get a degree or get out.
The maximum time students will have to complete their university degrees is six years for those on a four-year course, eight years for those on a five-year course and nine years for a six-year course, under a bill in Parliament.
It was introduced in January by Education Minister Niki Kerameus to empty universities of so-called “eternal students” who take years on end to complete their degrees, some staying for life.
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