NEW DELHI: As countries scramble to secure COVID-19 vaccines, ugly expressions like “vaccine race” and “vaccine nationalism” have entered the global lexicon.
An employee in personal protective equipment removes vials of AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccine from a visual inspection machine inside a lab at the Serum Institute of India, Pune, on Nov 30, 2020. Indian vaccines have been flown to most of the country’s neighbours, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Myanmar, and Nepal, and also farther afield, to the Seychelles, Cambodia, Mongolia, and Pacific Island, Caribbean, and African countries.
Members of Afghan security forces receive the first dose of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine from India, during a ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan February 23, 2021. Afghan Presidential Palace/ Handout via REUTERS For example, China has announced 300,000 doses for Myanmar but is yet to deliver any, while India quickly supplied 1.7 million. Similarly, Indian vaccines beat China’s into Cambodia and Afghanistan.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the phone on Wednesday AFP/MONEY SHARMA According to Duke University’s Global Health Institute, developed countries with 16 per cent of the world’s population – including Canada, the United States, and the UK, each of whom have guaranteed enough supplies to vaccinate their populations several times over – have secured 60 per cent of global vaccine supplies for themselves.
If there is a concern, it is that India has exported three times as many doses as it has administered to its own people.
nothing negative, unlike your neighbours..
1. It doesnt work. 2. No one wants to pay for it. 3. Banned in Europe and the list is growing. 4. Competition with China.
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