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MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Recent good news on vaccines for COVID-19 brings us closer to ending the acute phase of this terrible pandemic. But the sense of collective relief must be accompanied by a healthy dose of reality. While the scientific community awaits detailed data from leading vaccine developers, several questions remain. Notably, it is still unclear how long immunity would last and whether it will prevent people already infected from transmitting the virus to others. This means that...

China Daily Global / 2020-12 / 21 / Page012 We have vaccines, now comes the hard part By Patrick Osewe | China Daily Global | Updated: 2020-12-21 00:00 Recent good news on vaccines for COVID-19 brings us closer to ending the acute phase of this terrible pandemic. But the sense of collective relief must be accompanied by a healthy dose of reality. While the scientific community awaits detailed data from le...

Afghanistan: COVID-19 Multi-Sectoral Response Operational Situation Report, 20 December 2020 Format This report is produced by OCHA Afghanistan in collaboration with humanitarian partners via clusters. It covers activities carried out between 9 November and 13 December 2020. The next Operational Situation Report will be released on 14 January and cover activities carried out between 14 December and 10 January. HIGHLIGHTS According to MOPH data as of 20 December, 50,677 people in Afghanistan hav...

HIGHLIGHTS According to MOPH data as of 20 December, 50,677 people in Afghanistan have tested positive for COVID-19; 2,110 have died and 39,158 have recovered. Since the start of March, partners have medically screened 536,363 people at points-of-entry, provided 310,026 people with psychosocial support to cope with the mental health effects of COVID-19 and distributed more than 5.4 million bars of soap in 376 districts across the country. Since the start of the pandemic, more than 1.3 million P...

Japan and the United States have incentives to beat back the virus around the world. Shutting down borders may help in the short run, but no victory is sustainable if reservoirs of infection are left to fester elsewhere. Strategically, meanwhile, competitors like China and Russia have realized that the way in which we approach the next phase of the pandemic will have profound implications for international relations. If the United States and Japan are perceived as only caring about their own ci...

WHOs COVID-19 vaccine drive doubles global supply to 2 billion doses By (0) Doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are seen on Monday at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/UPI/Pool | License Photo Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A global initiative seeking fair access to COVID-19 vaccines for poorer countries said Friday it has secured commitments for 2 billion doses in nearly 200 nations -- doubling its existing supply. COVAX, the effort co-led by the World He...

Toronto, Canada – Front-line healthcare workers and residents of long-term care homes received the first COVID-19 vaccines in Canada this week, marking what officials said is the beginning of the end of the pandemic that brought the world to a halt. But as people in some parts of the world breathe a sigh of relief, others will not be able to join in the collective jubilation for months – if not years – to come. That is because countries, including Canada, have “hoarded” the majority o...

Full article Argentina’s Health Minister, Ginés González García and UK’s Minister of State for the Americas, Wendy Morton MP opened the virtual seminar Argentina and the UK hosted a virtual seminar on access to vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean addressing the portfolio of emerging vaccines against COVID-19, the challenge of equitable distribution and how best to tackle vaccine disinformation. On 14 December 2020, Argentina’s...

Canada: Is ‘me first’ COVID vaccine policy hurting other nations? Yasmine Hassan © The first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines were administered this week to health workers and reside... The first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines were administered this week to health workers and residents of long-term care homes in Canada [Carlos Osorio/Reuters] Toronto, Canada – Front-line healthcare workers and residents of long-term care homes received the first COVID-19 vaccines in...

Team Europe supports global initiative to fight global pandemic through € 400 million European Investment Bank loan and € 100 million grant to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance EIB loan guaranteed by European Fund for Sustainable Development Fair and equitable access to a successful COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of income, for millions of people across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Pacific, and in Europe’s eastern and southern neighbourhood, has been enabled by €500 million of new European f...