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Analysis: COVID-19 Vaccination: Is India Running Out of Doses?
As India grapples with a deadly second wave of Covid-19 infections - with an average of more than 90,000 cases daily from 1 April - its vaccination drive appears to be struggling.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Drones Are Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to Underserved Communities
The company Zipline is using the technology to provide medical resources to rural areas in markets around the world.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Press Release: New Global Tracker to Measure Pandemic’s Impact on Education Worldwide
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education for 1.6 billion children worldwide over the past year. To help measure the ongoing global response, Johns Hopkins University, the World Bank, and UNICEF have partnered to create a COVID-19 – Global Education Recovery Tracker.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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Analysis: Solar Technologies Can Speed up Vaccine Rollout in Africa. Here’s How
There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential workers in developing countries has only just begun.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: COVID-19 Underscores Need to Boost Pharma Manufacturing in Emerging Markets
The scramble to produce vaccines and therapeutics and the challenges of getting these products to poorer countries underscores the growing importance of local pharma manufacturers for these emerging markets.
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- Coronavirus
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Analysis: China’s Ambitious COVID-19 Vaccination Plan to Test Its Production Capability
China aims to vaccinate at least half a billion of its people against COVID-19 in four months, a challenge that will test the country’s formidable industrial might just as it accelerates efforts to help inoculate the rest of the world.
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- Coronavirus
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: DFC Announces Support for Manufacturing of Vaccines During Quad Summit
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced it will work with Indian manufacturer Biological E Ltd. to finance increased capacity to support Biological E’s effort to produce at least 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2022 with Stringent Regulatory Authorization (SRA) and/or World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Use Listing, including Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
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- Coronavirus
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- Asia Pacific
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Africans Slam Rich Nations for Blocking Access to Generic COVID Vaccines
Charities in Africa slammed rich nations on Thursday for blocking efforts to waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines, saying this would prolong the pandemic for years in poorer nations and push millions across the continent deeper into poverty.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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