More than ever, hope is riding on vaccine rollouts that have been fumbled and slowed around the world. But it’s not just the realisation that the vaccines aren’t an instant panacea that has been such a gut punch. The whole world seems to be alone together, cut off from the pre-COVID conceptions of what life was supposed to look like. India, like South Africa, is a vaccine producer for many of the world’s less developed nations through Covax — a World Health Organization initiative created to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. India, determined to take a different path, announced Sunday that it would not export about 1 billion doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for several months until its own vulnerable populations were inoculated.

Source: bd News24 January 06, 2021 05:48 UTC