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How India’s COVID Crisis May Become A Global Threat

The catastrophe unfolding in India appears to be the worst-case scenario that many feared from the Covid-19 pandemic: unable to find sufficient hospital beds, access to tests, medicines or oxygen, the country of 1.4 billion is sinking beneath the weight of infections, reports The Guardian.

An urgent crisis

The two opposed assumptions of the global response to coronavirus – wealthy countries in the west prioritising vaccines for their own need in one camp, and the argument led by the World...

https://mfame.guru/how-indias-covid-crisis-may-become-a-global-threat/

Maritime set to help vaccinate the world

Dominating the past year’s news has been the pandemic, mainly about the social distancing and lock-down regimes in various countries, but also the heralded way out of the Covid nightmare has been the development of vaccines that will mitigate the viral effects.

Those vaccines were delivered in record time and have been disseminated amongst the populations of a few countries, either by truck directly from the manufacturing centres or by air for speed of delivery. This has been particularly true...

https://container-news.com/maritime-set-to-help-vaccinate-the-world/

WHO Approves Oxford COVID Vaccine Saying Benefits Outweighs Risks

  • WHO has approved AstraZeneca covid vaccines.
  • Studies show benefits outweigh risks.
  • The vaccine will be supplied through the global COVAX.
  • This is the 3rd vaccine to receive WHO approval
  • Meanwhile, Oxford researchers are starting the vaccine trials on children.

According to an ANI News report, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday gave emergency use approval (EUA) to two versions of AstraZeneca-Oxford-developed COVID-19 vaccines, allowing these shots to be rolled out globally through...

https://mfame.guru/who-approves-oxford-covid-vaccine-saying-benefits-outweighs-risks/

Commentary: How will COVID-19 vaccine reach developing countries?

Bill Gates

As global COVID-19 vaccine distribution enters its second month, concern is rising that high-income countries will hoard supplies for their own populations, causing delays in distribution to poorer countries.

Latin America has experienced a third of the world’s deaths from the coronavirus, and Africa has now passed 2 million cases. Quarantines and business shutdowns have hit especially hard in poor countries, where people live on the margins even in prosperous times. It is believed that many...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-how-will-covid-19-vaccine-reach-developing-countries

Container shipping industry supports Covid-19 vaccine distribution

Major shipping lines, container ports and operators have signed a charter with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and UNICEF to assist with the Covid-19 vaccine distribution.

Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, the Port of Antwerp and DP World are among the 18 shipping, airlines and logistics companies which have participated in an innovative collaboration to support the globally inclusive, safe and sustainable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

“We will focus our best efforts as a strong collective,...

https://container-news.com/container-shipping-industry-supports-covid-19-vaccine-distribution/

Access To Vaccinations For Poor Countries Only From 2024, Reports A Study

  • Rich countries with just 14% of the world’s population have secured 53% of the most promising coronavirus vaccines.
  • Because of advance purchasing agreements by wealthy countries, poorer nations may not get access to a vaccine until 2024.
  • The Gates foundation provided $150mto the Serum Institute of India and the Gavi vaccines alliance to source 100m Covid-19 vaccine doses as early as 2021.
  • Covax, the global initiativethat aims to distribute about 2bn doses to 92 low- and middle-income...

https://mfame.guru/access-to-vaccinations-for-poor-countries-only-from-2024-reports-a-study/

The UN And AU Team Up To Fight The “Killer” Virus

As part of the information campaign on COVID-19, the commander of the Bangladeshi medical contingent at the Security Council-mandated UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, encourages local contractors to wear protection masks, reports UN News.

The COVAX international vaccine initiative
With so-called vaccine nationalism spreading “with full speed”, the Secretary-General told a journalists, following the fourth annual African Union-UN conference, that the continent must be...

https://mfame.guru/the-un-and-au-team-up-to-fight-the-killer-virus/

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