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Creating backlash. now, this is brazil. demonstrations erupting there, across the country, on saturday. but protestors, not complaining about covid restrictions. instead, they re demanding the impeachment of the president, jair bolsonaro, over reports of corruption. and also, his handling of the pandemic. mr. bolsonaro is being investigated in the senate over corruption allegations tied to the purchase of an indian coronavirus vaccine. more than 500,000 people have died from covid there, and many in brazil have simply had enough. this is the second time, this month, that protestors have taken to the streets to vent their anger against the brazilian leader. and brazil s, certainly, a hot spot in the global resurgence of the coronavirus. but worldwide, there is an alarming surge in such cases. experts blaming it, of course, ....
May 6, 2021 For years, India has made and exported more vaccines than any other country. Yet its vaccination drive against Covid-19, which began in early January, is stumbling and faltering. To this observation, the most obvious response is that India’s population is huge and scattered that reaching 1.39 billion people is a complicated, time-consuming task. True enough, though the government’s mode of vaccine delivery its maze of crashing apps, differential pricing, unclear messaging, and patchy record-keeping is still cause for worry. But the real problem is the alarming shortage of vaccines. This week, India opened up vaccinations to over-18s, but most states didn’t have enough stock to offer shots. Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer, has warned that the supply crunch will continue for another three months. ....
11:31 AM Under it s vaccine maitri initiative, India has already sent Covid-19 vaccines to at least 65 countries India will send at least 45 million vaccine doses to Pakistan as part of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, or GAVI. The vaccine agreed upon is Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine that is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. The first batch is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan in the middle of March. All charges of the vaccine, from manufacture to delivery, have been waived off by GAVI as part of the initiative to provide free vaccines to poor countries. While the first batch of AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine is expected to land in Pakistan in mid-March, the remaining doses will arrive in waves within June. ....
As part of its Vaccine Maitri initiative aimed to assist countries in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the Made-in-India vaccines reached Jamaica on Monday (local time). External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in a tweet, Caring for our Caribbean friends. Made in India vaccines have reached Jamaica. Last week, India had dispatched 175,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to other Caribbean countries Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines and Suriname. Hours after receiving 40,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Alfonso Browne thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for demonstrating an act of benevolence, kindness and empathy by sending 175,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to the Caribbean countries. ....