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"African Union countries should be seen as partners in the fight against COVID rather than hand-out recipients," writes Aggrey Aluso from @OpenSocietyEA.

LONDON, United Kingdom, 15 February , 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Despite urgent calls to ensure the equal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in 2021,

LONDON, United Kingdom, 15 February , 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-Despite urgent calls to ensure the equal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Monday at a US-hosted meeting on the COVID-19 pandemic that India is in talks with the World Health Organisation for an MoU for sharing its CoWIN platform globally under an initiative of the UN body, according to sources. India News | FS Shringla Participates in US-hosted COVID-19 Global Action Meeting.

Since the COVID-19 immunisation started almost a year ago in January 2021, 60.2 per cent of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and only 9.4 per cent of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose (source: our world in data). While there are many challenges to do so, the repeated argument being ‘pharma companies should forego Intellectual Property (IP) to expedite universal immunisation’. Should pharma companies waive IP during the pandemic? Will this ensure universal immunisation and equal distribution of therapies? Let’s find out...