I had my COVID-19 vaccine booster jab this week. I am one of the lucky ones. In poor countries, the majority of people have not even had their first dose of the vaccine. The omicron variant that is threatening our recovery and our return to normal life is the direct result of this inequality. The failure of our multilateral system to deliver on equal access to vaccines brought
Yashwant Sinha criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over India s vaccine policy
New Delhi:
Former Union minister and senior Trinamool leader Yashwant Sinha tweeted a video clip of a speech by the Indian representative at a discussion in the United Nations to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi over what has come to be known as the government s vaccine diplomacy . It was one of several defiant tweets from opposition leaders after the arrest of 17 people by the Delhi Police, which reports to the Union Home Ministry, for criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing vaccine shortage. The list includes Rahul Gandhi of the Congress and Mohua Moitra of the Trinamool Congress.
Leaders call for immediate
efforts to ensure equitable access to
vaccines
New York, 20 April 2021 – As
we continue the battle to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic,
world leaders were alerted about the deep inequity in access
to the COVID-19 vaccines between rich and poor countries and
between people at the UN High-level Meeting on vaccine
equity. They called for recognizing the vaccine and related
technologies as global public goods.
In a Presidential
Statement, released today on the key recommendations
from the 16 April ECOSOC Special Ministerial Meeting, ECOSOC
President Munir Akram underscores that: “The expressed
commitment to global solidarity and multilateral cooperation
must now be translated into concrete actions, which requires
17 Apr 2021 - 19:05
Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations HE Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani (File pic)
QNA
New York: The State of Qatar affirmed its moral and humanitarian commitment to ensure fair production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines all over the world, warning that the big gap in vaccine availability could derail the efforts made to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030.
This came in the statement read by the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations HE Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, during the United Nations Economic and Social Council session A Vaccine for All.