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U.S. alone wont fill COVAX funding gap, lead official says Reuters 1/22/2021 * Norway said this week it will donate shots * Urges other rich countries to "step up" By Emma Farge GENEVA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Bidens decision to join the COVAX vaccine facility could make a "huge difference" to the financing of the scheme, intended to deliver coronavirus vaccines to poor countries, a diplomat with a lead role in COVAX said on Friday. But Dag Inge Ulstein, Norways minister of inte...

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...

Norway Commits to Donating COVID-19 Vaccines to Low-Income Countries Dag Inge Ulstein says that equal vaccine distribution is "in the best interest of every country." Why Global Citizens Should Care:  Immunization will play an essential role in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. However, for the vaccines to work, everyone must have access to them, regardless of gender, race, age, socioeconomic status, or nationality. The United Nations is encouraging all countries to prioritize the global distrib...

Other countries have pledged to help poorer nations, but Norway is among the first to do so 'in parallel' with its own programme

By The Associated Press

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.

... Tue. 10:41 a.m.: Latest world virus headlines — Swiss hunt down virus variant in St. Moritz Jan 19, 2021 This exterior view of the hotel Badrutts Palace, center, was taken Monday in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Swiss authorities say they have placed two hotels under quarantine and ordered all guests and employees be tested after a new variant of the coronavirus was detected among them in the upscale skiing resort of St. Moritz. (Giancarlo Cattaneo/Keystone via AP) Here are summaries of the...

By The Associated Press Created: January 19, 2021 03:05 AM HONOLULU - Hawaiis leaders say limited supply is the main thing constraining distribution of the coronavirus vaccine in the state. Hawaii received 59,000 doses of the vaccine last week, but expects to get only about 32,000 this week. Still, Lt. Gov. Josh Green says the state expects to be able to vaccinate everyone in the top priority category by the end of February. That category includes health care workers, lon...

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