2021-05-21 14:35:40 GMT2021-05-21 22:35:40(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
DHAKA, May 21 (Xinhua) Instant action is needed by governments and pharmaceutical companies to fix a COVID-19 vaccine supply crisis in Asia as countries run out of stocks while suffering grim record daily death tolls, a global humanitarian organization said Friday.
According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Nepal and Bangladesh have run out of vaccines while India and Indonesia have both vaccinated around 3 percent of their populations.
Apart from this, it said the Philippines has only fully vaccinated around 0.6 percent.
A majority of countries in Asia are struggling with vaccine shortage while India, Nepal, Malaysia and the Philippines all have hospitals full to the brim with COVID-19 patients, said IFRC in a statement.
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Today 21 May, Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets spoke to the Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
Speaking to Minister Jaishankar, Liimets expressed Estonia’s continued support for India as it fights the coronavirus. “India is an important partner for Estonia and naturally, we are very concerned about the difficult situation caused by the spread of the virus there. The coronavirus crisis knows no borders and the difficulties of one country directly affect all others, which is why we must work together to defeat the crisis,” the foreign minister said.
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Authorities in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka said on Friday that the countries were close to running out of coronavirus vaccines. They expressed hope that China and Russia would bolster South Asia's efforts to tackle the pandemic.
Covid-19 cases and deaths have hit record levels across India and its neighbours in recent weeks and all are counting on vaccine campaigns to head off the next surge.
However, India's decision to ban vaccine exports because of growing domestic shortages has hit other countries in the region