Decades of mistreatment, a century is finally found. The worlds loneliest elephant ethiopias Prime Minister abu ahmed is addressing members of parliament about the 3 week long conflict in the to agree region to ground forces, say theyre still facing the federal army near the regional capital. The army said that theyve taken full control of mcalary on saturday. The t p. L. F. Has now told the which is news agency that theyve captured eritrean soldiers who are fighting alongside federal forces. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands forced to flee to neighboring sudan. Lets go live to what nairobi other serious web is following developments in ethiopia from whats the Prime Minister been saying . We havent been talking about the government and the army as he took it over when he came to power 2 years ago about some of the reforms that he has introduced since the p. L. F. Dominated ethiopias politics for nearly 30 years into a minister took over 2 years ago hes been saying that
A vaccine is being our vaccine. Our oral color vaccine is given to companies to, make without any benefit i. B. I. , our goal is to Impact Global health. And, and if we can do that in any way possible, then weve accomplished our mission. Well, you mention the Gates Foundation, their Research Suggests that global cova debts will double of high Income Countries by up to the 1st 2000000 doses of any successful vaccine. Do you agree with so thats a great study and weve been using it to advocate for something called codex. The kovacs cicelys is an organization under the leadership of the World Health Organization set, b. And gabby 192. 00 countries signed on to get 2000000000 doses of vaccine w. H. O. Approved vaccine by the end of 2021. And it will be given to the countries that are part of the facility, not how can 192 of them roughly 20 percent of their needs for now. And thats actually really important because its never been the case before that innovative Vaccine Technology has made it
Companies have the same time. You see that the richest countries in the world, the buying hundreds of millions of doses of these vaccines, specially in the context of that gates research. I dont have any worry that what youre doing isnt going to be enough to stop all the successful vaccines being taken by the rich of us as the poor. So i think that thats a very interesting analysis. And if you look at the total number of doses that the high income countries, but also india and brazil have purchased, its about 8800000000 doses are in excess of what they need. So what you, when you really look at it, there are a number of contracts and there are preorders contingent orders. So how that will play out in the end . Were not sure. But the more important point i think here is that kodaks intends to purchase 2000000000. 00 doses, and those doses will be provided to everyone and what cannot paper the Gates Foundation paper you quoted says, is that if the 1st 2000000. 00 doses are taken without
Questions were raised over astrazeneca trial results. The ceo telling bloomberg within the last few minutes that it will now likely as a result run a new global trial, saying, now that we have found what looks like a better efficacy, we are going to have to validate this, and we need to do an additional study. It looks like it is going to be half of those full dose that could produce a higher efficacy then maybe a full dose. Europe and the United States continued to struggle with containing the virus resurgence. Germany is seeing a record increase in new cases, while new york cases are approaching 7000, hospitalizations hit their highest since june. Here was more is bloombergs, china here with more is bluebirds emma chandra here with more is bloombergs emma chandra. Emma astrazeneca are going to look to have a no other global trial to test the efficacy of the half dose, which they think will be better, and getting some more troubling figures out of large economies. The likes of new yor
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