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Covid-19: U.S. Is Under Pressure to Export More Vaccine Supplies Amid Indiaâs Deadly Surge
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April 25, 2021, 12:03 a.m. ETApril 25, 2021, 12:03 a.m. ET
Indiaâs crisis could halt the vaccination campaign in Africa, which has 17 percent of the worldâs people and relies on vaccines produced in India.
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The body of a Covid-19 victim being carried at a crematorium in New Delhi on Friday.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
Biden administration officials are coming under increasing pressure to lift restrictions on exports of supplies that vaccine makers in India say they need to expand production amid a devastating surge in Covid-19 deaths there and falling demand in the United States.
Covid-19 Live Updates: Indiaâs Crisis Could Bring Africaâs Vaccination Campaigns to a Halt
A continent with 17 percent of the worldâs population relies on vaccines produced in India, but that country has restricted vaccine exports as it deals with crushing infection levels. In the U.S., cases are ebbing in the Upper Midwest.
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People waited to register for a Covid-19 vaccine in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday.Credit.Yasuyoshi Chiba/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images
NAIROBI, Kenya â The rapidly escalating coronavirus crisis in India is not only forcing hospitals to ration oxygen and sending families scrambling to find open beds for infected loved ones. It is also wreaking havoc on the global vaccination effort.
U.S. health agencies lifted the pause on Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, 10 days after urging providers to hold off on using the shot while they reviewed serious and rare cases of blood clots among several people who received it.