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Scrambling for jabs, Nepal in talks with Russia, China, US

Scrambling for jabs, Nepal in talks with Russia, China, US Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, April 30 When Nepal launched its vaccination drive against the coronavirus on January 27, the number of new infections was already in decline. There were few hospitalisations. It looked like the country had returned to a near normal situation. An over-enthusiastic KP Sharma Oli, the prime minister, at the time declared that everyone in the country would be vaccinated within three months. Things indeed were not looking that grim then. India had provided 1 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in a grant assistance, with which the inoculation campaign was launched. Nepal became one of the first countries to roll out vaccines against Covid-19 even as more than 100 countries were struggling.

World is in dire need of vaccine patent waiver

World is in dire need of vaccine patent waiver We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement In less than five months, more than 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in more than 200 countries. So far, the vast majority of those doses have gone into the arms of those living in wealthy nations, and many developing nations are not expected to get widespread access to a vaccine until 2023. At a time when COVID-19 is raging through India and South America, such a delayed timeframe could cost hundreds of thousands of lives and allow more time for the virus to develop potentially dangerous mutations.

The best and worst places to be in the world as Covid-19 variants race against vaccinations

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - A combination of nailing the virus and rolling out vaccines at one of the fastest rates in Asia saw Singapore top Bloomberg s Covid Resilience Ranking this month, dethroning New Zealand for the first time in the measure of the best and worst places to be in the pandemic era. The tiny city state had got locally transmitted cases down to near zero thanks to border curbs and a strict quarantine programme, allowing citizens to largely go about their everyday lives, even attending concerts and going on cruises. At the same time, Singapore had already administered vaccines that cover the equivalent of a fifth of its population, an aspect of pandemic control that other virus eliminators like New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan are lagging on.

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