COVID-19

G-7 Communique Wide-Ranging, But Critics Find Shortcomings   

U.S. President Joe Biden has declared that the G-7 summit was an “extraordinarily collaborative and productive meeting” that made progress on fighting the coronavirus pandemic, reviving the global economy and calling out China by name for its bad behavior.  Speaking to reporters Sunday at the end of the gathering in …

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More COVID Jabs to Be Distributed Globally in Coming Weeks 

South Korean officials announced Sunday that a million doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines would arrive in the country this week from the United States, doubling its earlier pledge. Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said the shipment includes vaccines for 550,000 South Korean soldiers, as promised by U.S. President Joe …

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EU to Deliver COVID-19 Shots to Developing Nations

The European Union pledged to deliver at least 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countries by year’s end, and develop vaccine production capacity in poorer nations, as it wrapped up a two-day summit in Brussels. After being criticized for a slow vaccination start, European leaders say they …

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India’s COVID Nightmare Is Now Officially Africa’s Problem

India’s catastrophic coronavirus outbreak has now sent lethal reverberations to Africa, where countries are relying on Indian-made vaccines through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access program known as COVAX. The World Economic Forum warned that Africa, which already has the world’s slowest vaccine rollout, with just 2 percent of the entire population inoculated, risked being left …

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270 doctors have died in second wave of Covid-19, says IMA

The doctors and other healthcare and frontline workers were inoculated in the first phase of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination programme which started on January 16 this year. The Indian Medical Association said on Tuesday that the country lost 270 doctors in the second wave of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, …

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The grim truth about COVID vaccinations in India

Facts, they say, don’t lie. Nor do figures. R Ramakumar, professor at Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences, demolishes the Government of India’s vaccination claims. The Government of India has made numerous claims about India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive. In order to ‘boost the nation’s spirits’, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi …

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