556 Essential: The IPR waiver can easily expedite the mass production of generics, making them cheaply available. Reuters
Devinder Sharma
Food & Agriculture Specialist
This is disturbing. With only one-in-500 among the low-income countries having received the vaccine shot against one-in-four among the high-income countries, gross vaccine inequality has been at play. As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), poor countries have received only 0.2 per cent of the vaccine doses while the rich countries have walked away with a share of 87 per cent.
So far, only 32 per cent in America, 27 per cent in the UK, 2 per cent in India and 0.3 per cent of the population in the Philippines have received both doses. At this rate, it may take years before the world can emerge out of the pandemic. The rich need to understand they cannot remain safely isolated from the deadly virus till the poor too have got the protective shield.
By Mayank Bhardwaj SHAHJANPUR, India (Reuters) - While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers s.
Apr 29, 2021
SHAHJANPUR, India – While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi, thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a monthslong sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them.
Underlining the organized nature of the movement as it tries to force Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke reforms aimed at making agriculture more efficient, farmers are being ferried to and from villages in order to harvest this year’s wheat crop.
The logistical feat is working, at least from the farmers’ point of view. They are on track to gather a record 109 million tons this year, posing more headaches for a government that some experts say underestimated the strength of rural anger.
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Amid Covid Chaos And Protests, Farmers Eye Record Wheat Crop Amid Covid Chaos And Protests, Farmers Eye Record Wheat Crop Underlining the organised nature of the movement as it tries to force PM Modi to revoke reforms aimed at making agriculture more efficient, farmers are being ferried to and from villages in order to harvest this year s wheat crop.
Amid Covid Chaos And Protests, Farmers Eye Record Wheat Crop. (FILE)
Shahjanpur:
While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a months-long sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them.