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I had my COVID-19 vaccine booster jab this week. I am one of the lucky ones. In poor countries, the majority of people have not even had their first dose of the vaccine. The omicron variant that is threatening our recovery and our return to normal life is the direct result of this inequality. The failure of our multilateral system to deliver on equal access to vaccines brought

Yashwant Sinha criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Indias vaccine policy New Delhi: Former Union minister and senior Trinamool leader Yashwant Sinha tweeted a video clip of a speech by the Indian representative at a discussion in the United Nations to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over what has come to be known as the governments "vaccine diplomacy". It was one of several defiant tweets from opposition leaders after the arrest of 17 people by the Delhi Police, which reports to t...

Leaders call for immediate efforts to ensure equitable access to vaccines New York, 20 April 2021 – As we continue the battle to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, world leaders were alerted about the deep inequity in access to the COVID-19 vaccines between rich and poor countries and between people at the UN High-level Meeting on vaccine equity. They called for recognizing the vaccine and related technologies as global public goods. In a Presidential Statement, released today on the key recomme...

 17 Apr 2021 - 19:05 Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations HE Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani (File pic) QNA New York: The State of Qatar affirmed its moral and humanitarian commitment to ensure fair production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines all over the world, warning that the big gap in vaccine availability could derail the efforts made to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030. This came in the statement read by the Permanent Representative of Qatar to th...

The 46-member grouping of the Least Developed Countries has said it supports a request made by India and South Africa to the WTO to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights for the COVID-19 vaccines to increase their access in these countries. India, which has been at the forefront of the global fight against COVID-19, told the UN General Assembly last month that vaccine inequity will defeat the collective global resolve to contain the coronavirus as the disparity in the accessibility...

April 07, 2021 Elderly people at a remote village in Nepal hold up their vaccination cards after receiving COVID-19 vaccines. A sign behind them encourages everyone to receive the vaccines and highlights ways to protect oneself from the disease. — courtesy UNICEF/Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi GENEVA — Addressing misinformation and countering vaccine hesitancy features prominently in a political declaration launched at the United Nations General Assembly, as countries pledged to ...

Thursday, 8 April 2021, 6:07 am Addressing misinformation and countering vaccine hesitancy features prominently in a political declaration launched at the United Nations General Assembly, as countries pledged to “work together as one” to defeat the pandemic, and help people and the planet to recover better. More than 181 Member States voiced support for the text entitled “The Political Declaration on Equitable Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines”, which was unveiled at an informal meet...