2021-04-29 15:06:29 GMT2021-04-29 23:06:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
COLOMBO, April 29 (Xinhua) The World Bank has approved 80.5 million U.S. dollars as additional financing to help Sri Lanka access and distribute fairly the COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen the country s vaccination system and pandemic response, local media quoted the World Bank as reporting Thursday.
This additional finance builds on the 217.56 million U.S. dollars which were approved in April 2020 towards the Sri Lanka COVID-19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness Project.
The World Bank said this new financing will help purchase vaccines to cover approximately 4 million people and will also cover the costs of deploying safe and effective vaccines to 20 percent of Sri Lanka s population to meet the target of vaccinating at least 60 percent of its population.
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The government is considering whether to locally produce Covid-19 vaccines with its own funds as the supply of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India s Serum Institute remains uncertain.
The production will be funded by the Tk 10,000 crore allocated in this year s budget to combat the pandemic.
The government funds will be spent for either locally manufacturing the vaccine with the developers assistance or an arrangement to co-produce with the inventors.
Bangladesh is trying to source vaccines as the country s mass inoculation programme stumbled following India s restriction on export of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine produced by Serum.
Of course there are no full and final answers to the questions:
What have we learned from the COVID pandemic; and,
What would should do better to prepare for the next one? Even the Panel report to the World Health Assembly will by no means be the final word. And we are still in the midst of this crisis.
What is important is that there is critical conversation and debate about what we have learned and what should happen next to be better prepared. Those learnings and requirements will differ in different contexts of course. But (as my mother said) it is important to share!
15 Defense Logistics Agency Distribution is working with the Department of Health and Human Services and Defense Department to provide over 8 million over-the-counter, at-home COVID-19 tests nationwide.
The test is the first to receive emergency-use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration and is suitable for ages 2 and up. It provides results in 15 minutes via a smartphone application.
DOD announced the effort in a Feb. 1 statement indicating it coordinated with HHS to award $231.8 million to Ellume USA LLC to increase production of the home tests in support of a White House effort.
“The tests will be distributed across the U.S. in accordance with the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness policy established Jan. 21,” the statement said.
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US Envoy To UN Assures Full Support In India s COVID Fight: Will Work Around The Clock
The ambassador on Monday informed that the US is doing everything it can to help India fight the second wave
Credits: AP/Narendramodi
A day after US prepared to send raw materials and other COVID-19 supplies to India, the US ambassador to UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield assured around the clock help to India. The ambassador on Monday informed that the US is doing everything it can to help India fight the second wave.
The ambassador further wrote about the materials deployed by the US to India amid the second wave of COVID-19.