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Equitable vaccine delivery plan needs more support to succeed: COVAX partners

2 March 2021
Health
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The equitable coronavirus vaccine delivery initiative COVAX that has delivered its first doses to West Africa and Latin America in the past few days, is a credit to international solidarity, but potential obstacles must be overcome if a fully global rollout is to be achieved, UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.

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Yemen pledging conference: Severity of suffering ‘impossible to overstate’ says Guterres 

Humanitarian Aid

The international response to Monday’s High-Level Pledging Event on Yemen has been described as “disappointing” by the UN chief, announcing that pledges totalled less than last year’s humanitarian response, and a billion dollars less than the figure raised in 2019.  

 

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COVID-19 cases rise for first time in seven weeks: WHO

Health

After six consecutive weeks of decline, COVID-19 cases worldwide increased last week for the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. 

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UN’s nuclear watchdog agency will not be ‘bargaining chip’ in Iran nuclear deal

Peace and Security

The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency told journalists on Monday that inspections in Iran should not be used as a “bargaining chip” to revive a troubled nuclear deal. 

OCHA/Halldorsson

Fate still unclear of ‘tens of thousands’ of civilian detainees in Syria 

Human Rights

The fate of tens of thousands of civilians being held in Syria’s “notorious” prisons or detention centres is still unclear, 10 years after the country’s civil war began, UN investigators said on Monday. 

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Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire begin history-making COVAX vaccination drives

Health

As the first recipients of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine doses through the UN-partnered COVAX initiative, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana began their vaccine rollouts on Monday, prioritizing frontline workers and vulnerable groups, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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