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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and an alliance of faith groups urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to back a big boost in the International Monetary Fund's emergency reserve funds to help poor countries devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to Biden, the governing body of the church said the United States should take urgent action to help the poorest countries on humanitarian grounds, but also to shore up its own economic interests and bolster trade with the developing world. "The U.S. government is vital to ensuring the world emerges from this pandemic with...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that it will be "in the interest" of the UK to begin donating vaccines now rather than waiting for surpluses.

While fighting the pandemic at home, President Biden joined top allies Friday for a virtual conference on cooperating to fix a patchy global vaccination effort.

The World Trade Organzation’s (WTO) new chief warned that vaccine protectionism, "a phenomenon where rich countries are vaccinating their populations and poor countries have to wait" must be avoided.

Daily Monitor Wednesday February 10 2021 Foreigners queue to receive a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel, yesterday. PHOTO/AFP. Summary Vaccines: About 12.7 billion doses of various coronavirus vaccines have been bought so far, enough to vaccinate roughly 6.6 billion people.  Advertisement Senam Agbesi has been trying to make the best of lockdown in London. “I’ve done lots of Zooms, lots of walks,” he said. The 34-year-old NHS manager believes he could get the vaccine this month, as he is starting a new job that would mean visiting ho...