Victor Bukenya Muwanguzi remembers the challenge of navigating a big life transition when he moved from Uganda to Canada to attend the University of Toronto – an experience that motivated him to help others who are facing similar hurdles.
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OTTAWA – Canada is likely to get at least 120 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine that will come too late to help with the country’s rollout and advocates argue it should commit now to giving those vaccines to the developing world as soon as possible.
Canada has contracts with Pfizer and Moderna that offer enough doses alone to fully vaccinate every Canadian by September. On top of that, there are additional doses from Johnson and Johnson, and AstraZeneca that could be used.
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Saskatchewan, already dispensing vaccines more efficiently than most provinces, to get a boost in supply.
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Wolfram Hatz, president of the Bavarian Business Association, has a throat swab performed by a robot at a media event at the German automation company Franka Emika. The robot, which can perform coronavirus throat swabs, works almost completely automatically. The test person encloses their mouth around a mouthpiece, which is exchanged by the robot after each test, and the robot takes the throat swab with a stick. (Matthias Balk/Getty Images)
Patents for COVID-19 vaccines slow global supply, raise risk of new variants, advocates say
India and South Africa are leading a proposal for the World Trade Organization to waive patents on COVID-19 vaccines temporarily, in order to boost production and fix a low supply problem for poorer countries.
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India and South Africa are leading a proposal for the World Trade Organization to waive patents on COVID-19 vaccines temporarily.(Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press)
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