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I had my COVID-19 vaccine booster jab this week. I am one of the lucky ones. In poor countries, the majority of people have not even had their first dose of the vaccine. The omicron variant that is threatening our recovery and our return to normal life is the direct result of this inequality. The failure of our multilateral system to deliver on equal access to vaccines brought

Yashwant Sinha criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over India's vaccine policy New Delhi: Former Union minister and senior Trinamool leader Yashwant Sinha tweeted a video clip of a speech by the Indian representative at a discussion in the United Nations to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over what has come to be known as the government's "vaccine diplomacy". It was one of several defiant tweets from opposition leaders after the arrest of 17 people by the Delhi Police, which reports to the Union Home Ministry, for criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing vaccine sho...

Leaders call for immediate efforts to ensure equitable access to vaccines New York, 20 April 2021 – As we continue the battle to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, world leaders were alerted about the deep inequity in access to the COVID-19 vaccines between rich and poor countries and between people at the UN High-level Meeting on vaccine equity. They called for recognizing the vaccine and related technologies as global public goods. In a Presidential Statement, released today on the key recommendations from the 16 April ECOSOC Special Ministerial Meeting, ECOSOC President Munir Akram undersco...

 17 Apr 2021 - 19:05 Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations HE Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani (File pic) QNA New York: The State of Qatar affirmed its moral and humanitarian commitment to ensure fair production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines all over the world, warning that the big gap in vaccine availability could derail the efforts made to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030. This came in the statement read by the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations HE Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, during the United Nations Economic and Soc...