Vaccine companies and the U.S. government snubbed WHO initiative to scale up global manufacturing Emily Baumgaertner © (Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press) The Serum Institute in India has been responsible for manufacturing vaccines for much of the world. (Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press)
COVID-19 vaccines were still in the early stages of development last spring, but Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada was thinking ahead.
Even if those efforts were successful, he figured, wealthy nations alone wouldn t be able to make enough vaccine to quickly inoculate billions of people.
His solution: a program, launched by the World Health Organization last May that aimed to train dozens of pharmaceutical manufacturers in Latin America, Asia and Africa to increase worldwide production of vaccines once they came on the market.
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India is facing one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the world, buckling the country’s weak healthcare system and overwhelming the nation’s ability to cremate and bury its dead.
The world’s second-most populous nation recorded 379,257 new cases Thursday, a daily record for any country since the coronavirus first emerged more than a year ago. It also reported 3,645 deaths, the most in a single day in India. The actual numbers of infections and deaths are believed to be significantly higher.
The outbreak is being blamed on a so-called double mutant variant of the coronavirus that’s believed to be highly infectious. A vaccine drive has sputtered due to limited doses.
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COVID-19 has added to the educational barriers girls and women face around the world
Access to education is a fundamental human right, but for millions of girls around the globe it is a right that is not upheld, writes Alexandra Chaves.
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More than 11 million girls worldwide may never return to school after the pandemic, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).(Scott Galley/CBC Graphics)
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Sunita Malik sat in the driver’s seat of her tractor, parked behind a police barricade at the edge of India’s capital.
She and her husband had come 60 miles from their farm in northern India to the gates of New Delhi, where hundreds of thousands of farmers have camped out for two months in bone-chilling cold in one of the biggest protests in the country’s history.
They are demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government withdraw legislation aimed at boosting private investment in India’s heavily regulated farm sector, on which half of India’s 1.4 billion people depend for their livelihoods. They fear the laws will undermine the government price supports that prop up small-hold farmers and open the door to a corporate takeover of agriculture.
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