Queue-jumping? Global vaccine shortage imperils Glasgow climate talks Reuters 5 hrs ago
By Laurie Goering
LONDON, May 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Poorer nations struggling to access COVID-19 vaccines may make the moral choice not to send delegates to November s U.N. climate summit in Scotland if others more in need of the doses remain at risk, climate and health experts warned on Wednesday.
Giving climate-talks delegates priority in vaccine-short countries would go against the principle of not jumping the queue, Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, deputy director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told journalists in an online briefing.
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It is easy to be negative about Ireland because it the economy there has been on a disaster road for 6 years. You do not know your stuff about Ireland apart from some superficial overview. Being stuck in the Euro zone meant that Ireland could not take corrective measures re their currency over the past years which they say would have curtailed some of the serious reasons why they got into their mess. Being in the Euro zone did not help Ireland one bit while it slid down that de-regulated path to where it is now and high wages, high costs, piss poor infrastructure is a big reasons why multinational companies are flooding out lately.
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A senior Indian government scientific adviser warned Wednesday that a third wave of coronavirus infections would sweep the country as it struggles with the devastating effects of the current wave that officially claimed nearly 4,000 lives in the course of one day.
The government’s principal scientific adviser, K. Vijay Raghavan, issued the warning as the World Health Organization said in its weekly report that India accounted for almost half the cases reported globally last week and about a quarter of all fatalities.
“Phase 3 is inevitable, given the high levels of circulating virus,” Raghavan told a news briefing in New Delhi. “But it is not clear on what timescale this phase 3 will occur … We should prepare for new waves.”
India s foreign minister pulled out of in-person meetings at a Group of Seven gathering in London on Wednesday and was self-isolating after members of his country s delegation tested positive for the coronavirus. Talks centred on ways to ensure global access to COVID-19 vaccines and curb a virus that is still ravaging many parts of the world, including India.
3rd Coronavirus Wave Inevitable, Top Indian Science Adviser Says
06 May 2021, 04:06 GMT+10
A senior Indian government scientific adviser warned Wednesday that a third wave of coronavirus infections would sweep the country as it struggles with the devastating effects of the current wave that officially claimed nearly 4,000 lives in the course of one day.
The government s principal scientific adviser, K. Vijay Raghavan, issued the warning as the World Health Organization said in its weekly report that India accounted for almost half the cases reported globally last week and about a quarter of all fatalities. Phase 3 is inevitable, given the high levels of circulating virus, Raghavan told a news briefing in New Delhi. But it is not clear on what timescale this phase 3 will occur . We should prepare for new waves.