NEW DELHI: Afghanistan and India set aside the same share for health in their budgets, 4%, just over a quarter of recommended spending and a third of what the second poorest country in the world, Burundi, did. And that may have affected the extent to which people were protected from …
Read More »The UN chief criticizes countries for making “parallel agreements” of vaccination against Covid-19 for their own population | India News
UNITED NATIONS: With the Covid-19 pandemic soon to reach the grim milestone of one million deaths, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday rebuked countries that are making “side agreements” to have vaccines exclusively for their own populations, saying such “vaccination”. it is “counterproductive”. “We are working to promote treatments and …
Read More »Rich nations have grabbed more than half of future Covid-19 vaccine supply, says Oxfam
A small bottle labeled with a “Vaccine” label stands near a medical syringe in front of the words “Coronavirus COVID-19” shown in this photo taken on April 10, 2020. (REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration / File photo) The NGO analyzed agreements reached by vaccine and pharmaceutical producers for the …
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