Venezuela vaccinates 67% of its population against COVID-19
Despite the US blockade against Venezuela, the socialist government led by President Nicolás Maduro has been carrying out a successful mass vaccination drive against COVID-19
China’s vaccine project offers new prospects of global collaboration
Vaccines by the Chinese firms Sinopharm and Sinovac are being administered across the world on terms far more favorable than those of US and UK-based pharma giants
Global outcry after Venezuela financially blocked from COVAX initiative
Last week, the Venezuelan government announced that the Union Bank of Switzerland blocked its latest payments of 10 million USD towards the COVAX initiative for acquiring COVID-19 vaccines
Why do we need global vaccination?
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha and immunologist Dr. Satyajit Rath discuss the politics, economics and technical aspects of the global vaccine scenario in light of Bill Gates’ recent statement on technology transfer
Palestine receives critical batch of 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from China
Besides China, the Palestinian Authority has also received vaccines from other sources, including doses from the United Nations COVAX initiative and Russian Sputnik V
COVID-19 vaccines: Differences, costs, and challenges
The COVID-19 pandemic saw the fastest development of a vaccine ever, with a number of research collaborations making this feat possible. But many challenges also remain
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