The appeal comes as the world has faced high case counts in recent weeks
The World Health Organization chief appealed on Friday to makers of COVID-19 vaccines and the wealthier countries buying them to “stop making bilateral deals,” saying they hurt a U.N.-backed effort to widen access to the jabs.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 42 countries are now rolling out such vaccines, mostly high-income and a few middle-income countries. He called on countries that have more jabs than they need to make some available to the COVAX Facility the U.N.-backed project to get vaccines deployed widely.
Coronavirus updates | January 1, 2021
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January 01, 2021 21:49 IST
A dry run will be conducted by all the State and Union Territory governments on January 2 with the objective of preparing for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine across the country, the Union Health Ministry said.
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Students greets each other as schools in Kerala reopened partially after a long break, at a Girls Higher Secondary School in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, January 1, 2021.
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A dry run will be conducted by all the State and Union Territory governments on January 2 with the objective of preparing for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine across the country, the Union Health Ministry said.
Coronavirus updates | December 31, 2020
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Not more than 5 people to assemble at public places in Delhi during night curfew to avoid large gatherings in view of COVID-19
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A vendor wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus waits for customers at his shop in New Delhi.
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Not more than 5 people to assemble at public places in Delhi during night curfew to avoid large gatherings in view of COVID-19
India has reported five new cases of the mutant variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus four found by NIV, Pune, and one was sequenced in IGIB, Delhi taking the total number of these cases to 25 on Thursday as per information released by the Health Ministry.