US to Begin Sharing AstraZeneca Doses Soon
(CNN) The US will begin sharing millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine with other countries soon, an official told CNN on Monday.
The US has tens of millions of AstraZeneca’s vaccine stockpiled but none have been used because it has not yet been granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. Because President Joe Biden’s officials now feel confident the US has enough doses for its population, they will begin to distribute it to other countries pending a safety review.
Multiple world leaders have pressed Biden to share doses as other countries have struggled to ramp up vaccinations. One of those countries is India, which is currently going through one of the worst Covid surges in the world. Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on Monday, but a readout from the call released by the White House did not mention sharing vaccines.
updated: Apr 22 2021, 15:57 ist
By Pankaj Mishra,
India’s healthcare system is buckling under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic: The country registered more than 2,104 deaths and over 300,000 infections on Thursday alone. Videos of crowded mortuaries and funeral sites, and grief-stricken relatives outside packed hospitals, are circulating among middle-class Indians. The Lancet says India could suffer more than 2,300 deaths every day by June.
As in so many of the pandemic’s worst-hit countries, this tragedy was avoidable and is largely the fault of a boastful and incompetent government. Yet, judging by the fate of other bungling far-right politicians such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, the UK’s Boris Johnson, Hungary’s Viktor Urban, and the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may well suffer few political consequences for his devastating missteps.
Singapore Indian refiners have so far stayed away from slashing crude run rates sharply despite the surge in COVID-19 cases to record highs, but with a rise in regional lockdowns and its subsequent impact on mobility and industrial activity, analysts said they will be forced to scale back crude runs in anticipation of a slowdown in oil demand.
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However, analysts told S&P Global Platts that the run cuts may not be substantial as export demand for some oil products remain robust with other regional economies and oil consumers showing a recovery trend.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Qureshi says willing to talk if India revisits its August 5, 2019 decisions on J-K
Qureshi said that Pakistan had outstanding issues with India including Kashmir, Siachen, Sir Creek, water and other minor issues and the only sensible way forward was the dialogue.
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Islamabad [Pakistan], April 26 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday said that Pakistan would be happy to talk out differences and resolve outstanding issues through dialogue if India was willing to revisit the unilateral decisions it took on Aug 5, 2019, regarding the status of Jammu and Kashmir.
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