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World Bank Group Supports Ghana To Boost its COVID-19 Response
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an additional credit of $130 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Ghana...
Commission approves contract with BioNTech-Pfizer alliance to ensure access to a potential vaccine
European Commission approved a fourth contract with pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer, which provides for the initial purchase of 200 million doses on behalf...
Can ‘Open Science’ speed up the search for a COVID-19 vaccine? 5 things you need to know
The UN is calling for authoritative scientific information and research to be made freely available, to accelerate research into an effective vaccine against the...
Biden Won: What’s next?
The moment many awaited with bated breath finally arrived, Vice President Joe Biden has been declared as the new elect 46th President of United...
UN experts decry COVID vaccine hoarding: ‘No one is secure until all of us are’
The only way to fight the COVID-19 crisis is to make affordable vaccines available to everyone, independent UN human rights experts said on Monday,...
Myanmar’s farmers battle climate and health uncertainty
For farmers in Myanmar, the COVID-19 pandemic is adding to growing unpredictability, in a sector already struggling to cope with the effects of climate...
Survey Shows Rising Vaccine Hesitancy Threatening COVID-19 Recovery
In a World Economic Forum/Ipsos survey of 18,526 adults from 15 countries, only 73% say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if available -...
Protecting citizens from COVID while granting refugee access, can be done- UNHCR
It is possible for countries to both protect public health and “ensure access” for vulnerable people forced to flee their homes, the UN refugee...
China censorship of its media and the COVID-19 pandemic
The influx of COVID- 19 in China has exposed that the country has not been very transparent, and was not giving real information about...
Enhanced social protection an opportunity Asia Pacific must grasp
Authors: Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Chihoko Asada Miyakawa*
In the fight against COVID-19, success has so far been defined by responses in Asia and the...