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Germany will supply 30 million vaccine doses for poorer countries by the end of the year, announced Chancellor Angela Merkel following the Global Health Summit.

Disappointment brews amid fears major health summit will fail to plug gaps in global Covid response Many hoped the G20 health summit would tackle vaccine apartheid and boost funds for the global response, but a leaked declaration is vague 20 May 2021 • 11:24am AstraZeneca vaccines arrive in Somalia earlier this year. This batch came from India, but the country has since banned vaccine exports Credit: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh There are growing concerns that a major G20 summit on Friday wil...

The Latest: EU signs Pfizer vaccine contract for 1.8B doses Sign In The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 17 1of17FILE - In this Friday, April 23, 2021 file photo, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen makes a statement during an official visit to the Pfizer pharmaceutical company in Puurs, Belgium. The European Union has cemented its support for Pfizer-BioNTech and its novel COVID-19 vaccine technology by agreeing to a massive contract extension for a potential 1.8...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwans worst outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic grew Thursday, with a...

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council is calling for accelerated availability of...

23-04-2021 ) Co-initiated by the European Union, the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and many partner organisations from the NGO sector, the global response, the “Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator” (ACT-A) was launched exactly one year ago. [Udo Bullmanns office]

20 April 2021 The Global Fund warmly welcomed the announcement by the Netherlands of a contribution of €52 million to the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator – a groundbreaking global collaboration to accelerate development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines. Of the new funds, €12 million will be channeled through the Global Fund to strengthen its response to the COVID-19 pandemic while protecting gains made against HIV, tuberculosis, and ...

Millions of low-cost diagnostic tests to be made available to poorest nations The move is a significant step to increase access in poorer countries, where testing rates are 10 times lower than in developed nations 25 January 2021 • 10:40am A health worker takes a nasal swab of a resident for a rapid antigen test at a market in Mumbai  Credit: Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP A World Health Organization-backed initiative has announced a major deal to halve the cost of rapid tests for developing count...

Worlds poor need action, not Covid vaccine nationalism, say experts Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/EPA Pharmaceutical companies should do more to transfer vaccine technology to prevent the poorest countries falling behind in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, according to an expert. The warning came from Dag-Inge Ulstein , the co-chair of the global council trying to speed up access to Covid vaccines for the wor...

‘Vaccines reaching high-income countries quickly, while poorest have; some countries pursuing side deals, procuring beyond need’