EU pandemic failure exposed by Russia as Covid highlighted immense problems in the bloc Tom Hussey
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Speaking to RT yesterday, Russia foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova hit out at the European Union for a lack of leadership shown throughout the pandemic. The Russian branded the bloc as having allowed politicisation to tie the hands of its people and businesses adding it has gone against the interests of its members. Ms Zakharova explained how the EU simply lost time with the jabs rollout despite the chance for it to be a leader in vaccine production. The Russian concluded by saying the EU and the West have immense problems and have not lived up to the task of the challenges they ve been given over the pandemic.
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A notice about the shortage of COVID-19 seen at a vaccination centre in Mumbai, April 8, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas
The total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered around the world stood at 928.68 million on April 20, 2021, according to Our World in Data. India had administered 127.13 million doses, behind only the US, with 213.39 million, and China, 195.02 million. Some 40% of the US population, versus only 8% of the Indian population, had received at least one dose.
According to India’s Ministry of External Affairs, India had exported 66 million doses to 94 countries as of April 22. Of this, only 10.61 million were grants; the remainder had been exported by Serum Institute of India (SII), partly to meet its contract with the COVAX alliance and partly as direct sale to foreign countries.
04/22/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/22/2021 01:12
Keynote Address by External Affairs Minister at ICWA-USI International Gallipoli Virtual Seminar
Excellencies, distinguished scholars, ladies and gentlemen.
I am pleased to join you all today at the inauguration of the International Conference on Gallipoli 2021. This is the first major commemoration of the Battle of Gallipoli to be hosted by any platform of national significance in India. Perhaps, it is only appropriate that it should be done jointly by two venerable, historic bodies - the United Service Institution and the Indian Council of World Affairs. Their coming together with international participation has provided an opportunity to not only reflect on the Gallipoli campaign, but also to assess India s contribution to World War I. I know that the specific theme today is of Gallipoli Revisited; but this is also an occasion to revisit the larger issue of India s global participation and presence.
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