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While vaccine inequity among African countries has played a major role in the continent's low COVID-19 vaccination rate, experts say capacity and logistical challenges, along with vaccine hesitancy, is also creating significant challenges.
The Sudanese general who seized power in a coup this week said the military he heads will appoint a technocrat prime minister to rule alongside it within days.
Saskatchewan is activating its emergency operations centre to lead its response to record levels of COVID-19, as it struggles with the highest rate of new daily cases in the last week of any province.
The global approach to vaccine equity is serving as a smokescreen for vaccine nationalism Instead of looking to multilateral institutions for permission, the focus should be on the policy tools that are already available to states. 2 hours ago Supply chain governance remains the central problem of how vaccines are manufactured and delivered around the world. | Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters Accusations abound of vaccine nationalism against states that stockpile vaccines and of vaccine apartheid, as Covid-19 vaccines become concentrated in rich countries. Calls for vaccine ...
US President Joe Biden. | Mandel Ngan/ AFP A group of over 170 world leaders and Nobel Prize winners have urged United States President Joe Biden to support a waiver proposing to suspend rules of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to boost global vaccination rates. India and South Africa had moved this proposal at the World Trade Organization in October. The letter, released to the media on Wednesday, said that the World Trade Organization’s waiver was important to bring an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. It said that the vaccine and related t...