Caribbean appeals to Biden to share vaccines with U.S. third border
HAVANA - Several Caribbean island nations have issued a plea to the United States to share its stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines with the region as it has said it would with Mexico and Canada, calling on it not to neglect its “third border.”
The independent island states of the Caribbean archipelago - except for Cuba, which is developing its own homegrown vaccines - have complained of inequitable global access to vaccines hurting countries like them without the financial or political heft to seal deals.
These nations have only received a dribble of shots as donations from India or through the COVAX vaccine-sharing mechanism, while neighboring Caribbean islands that are still territories of former colonial powers, like the Cayman islands, have already started mass vaccinations.
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India Sending Humanitarian Assistance To Drought-Hit Madagascar: S Jaishankar India Sending Humanitarian Assistance To Drought-Hit Madagascar: S Jaishankar The humanitarian assistance is being delivered on-board Indian Naval Ship Jalashwa, which will leave on March 3 and is expected to Madagascar between March 21-24, the MEA said in a statement.
S Jaishankar discussed issues of mutual interest with Madagascar s Foreign Minister. (File)
New Delhi:
India is sending a consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes of rice and 100,000 hydroxychloroquine tablets to Madagascar in response to the east African country s appeal for assistance to deal with a humanitarian crisis triggered by a severe drought, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday.
India sending 1,000 metric tonnes of rice, 100,000 hydroxychloroquine tablets to Madagascar
India
Updated: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 17:10 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 02: India is sending a consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes of rice and 100,000 hydroxychloroquine tablets to Madagascar in response to the east African country s appeal for assistance to deal with a humanitarian crisis triggered by a severe drought, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday.
The humanitarian assistance is being delivered on-board Indian Naval Ship Jalashwa, which will leave with the food and medical assistance on March 3 and is expected to reach the Port of Ehoala in Madagascar between March 21 and 24, 2021, the MEA said in a statement.