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world the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is cleared for global rollout through the double date shows kovacs ski. turkey summons the u.s. ambassador to ankara accusing washington of supporting kurdish fighters. and outrage in india after climate activist is arrested for editing and sharing a social media guide in support of protesting farmers. or as many miles the minute she intensifies its crackdown on protesters against the february 1st coup the un special envoy has told the army the world is watching and a heavy handed response will have severe consequences local media reporting that soldiers opened fire with robert bullets on demonstrators in mandalay myanmar's 2nd largest city tanks have appeared on streets across the country more arrests are expected overnight now that a curfew and internet blackout have come into effect. they are me as war protesters they could face up to 20 years in jail if they obstruct soldiers or incite what they call hatred or contempt towards cruel leaders and deposed leader aung san suu she is to spend a further 2 days under house arrest she faces charges of il

in the capital accra on wednesday having been flown in from india sarah curran reports now on the kovacs fiend. even back seem to ensure that people from less wealthy countries are protected against covert 19 is being hailed as a historic moment. the rival of $600000.00 from india marks the beginning of a massive campaign that will see more than $2000000000.00 doses delivered to several developing countries across different continents this covert program is about equity and certainly darity if you follow the vaccination going on around the planet so far it's only citizens from the let the say the better off countries that have benefited from this and from today we're bringing in equity gone the plants inoculate around 20 percent of its population in the 1st phase of its campaign but is still not enough and the government says it's working on securing more doses. almost $2500000.00 people worldwide have died from corona virus so far rich countries have been able to buy far more vaccines in poorer ones and while kovacs has managed to raise $6000000000.00 in needs at least another 200000000

feeling of the jobs come from 2 sources the oxford university astra zeneca cova shield vaccine and kovacs it which is developed by the indian pharmaceutical company bharat biotech now pennsylvania based oxygen inc wants to bring kovacs into the states the biopharmaceutical company which traditionally deals with fighting blindness has entered an agreement with india's bharat biotech oxygen tweeted we are excited to announce the definitive agreement for the commercialization of kovacs in the us with bharat biotech and share in the us commercialization profits kovacs and received emergency use authorization approval in india in january according to a press release from oxygen the company plans to receive an initial supply of kovacs and doses from bharat biotech once the vaccine is approved by u.s. regulatory authorities in the meantime it will ramp up its own manufacturing process of the vaccine in the us while the vaccine is already being used in india due to the emergency use authorization it is simultaneously in its phase 3 of clinical trials involving 25800 patients so far that actually

and the african union have recognized that in addition to kovacs there have to be other mechanisms so they've gone out and made 2 separate germans of $270000000.00 doses in one and $400000000.00 doses and another so even if kovacs the wildly successful this year only 20 percent of population in our core countries are going to get access to vaccines so we do have to solve the doctor and go the the exactly right that it's becoming more and more about manufacturing which is really also a recognition that the science behind vaccine development has really delivered that it now looks like we have more than a handful of vaccine that are going to be effective at addressing this coronavirus and so the focus now moves over to vaccination and then access. will question from each e.p. at wendy's accedes costs much maybe she had no cost to anybody he wants to handle that $1.00 and just gives you take the sly. well. i think vaccines cost is so much because the amount of research and development investment that has to go 'd into them is substantial so in order to cover up costs and sometimes make a

beginning of the largest vaccination operation in history ghana is the 1st to benefit from the un's kovacs program. and our intake of this is on his ear a live from london also coming up. a message of defiance continues to sound from the streets of me and marks as the military appointed foreign minister flies to thailand for crisis talks. the un human rights chief accuses sri lanka of systematically ignoring rights abuses during the civil war the claim the government calls unjustified. and a landmark ruling in germany where former syrian secret police officer has been sentenced to prison. or nearly a year after the corona virus outbreak was declared a pandemic the race to vaccinate the world's poorest people against private 19 is finally accelerating the world health organization says its kovacs program is the largest vaccination operation in history and the 1st 600000 doses from astra zeneca have been delivered to ghana which has reported nearly 600 deaths around half of which were in the last 2 months alone meanwhile regulators in the u.s. say johnson and johnson's single dose vaccine is

and in the us with bharat biotech and share in the us commercialization profits kovacs and received emergency use authorization approval in india in january according to a press release from oxygen the company plans to receive an initial supply of kovacs and doses from bharat biotech once the vaccine is approved by u.s. regulatory authorities in the meantime it will ramp up its own manufacturing process of the vaccine in the u.s. while the vaccine is already being used in india due to the emergency use authorization it is simultaneously in its phase 3 of clinical trials involving 25800 patients. so far that actually has shown plenty of promise it is easily stored and could potentially treat all age groups kovacs and also shown to work against covert $1000.00 variants such as the u.k. strain aside from creating excitement for its coronavirus fighting abilities the prospect of oxygen importing and manufacturing kovacs in the u.s. has piqued the interest of investors in december oxygen was a penny stock that you could have picked up for $0.29 a share this past monday it hit a high of $

the government says the reports though are politically motivated global vaccine sharing alliance kovacs aims to distribute at least $240000000.00 doses in the 1st half of this year it wants to give low income countries fair access. today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of a long term supply agreement with the serum institute of india for the coke 19 vaccines to access to vaccine products through technology transfer from astra zeneca and nova facts unicef along with our procurement partners including power hope will have access to up to $1100000000.00 doses of vaccines for around $100.00 countries for approximately $3.00 a dose for the low and lower middle income countries and specters in the world health organization have visited a variety institute in the chinese city of work where corona virus was 1st identified the team is investigating the origins of covert 90. and the former head of the european bank mario draghi is agreed to lead a chilly out of its political crisis he will be italy's new prime minister that's my lot for today thanks for your company pitted i was with yo

is the right to do that and the kovacs initiative is the right initiative to make sure to provide this in our own interest because this is something which we forget in in european countries that it's our only interest to be able to travel to these countries there is this wonderful word of the french word of called on sunday tale which we have to have around us and i think it's going to have a cordon a safety a safety buffer around us so it's in our own interest to extend a solitary handle solidarity to these countries let me ask you very briefly the aids model in which patent protection was lifted or to some degree modified in order to ensure that crucial medications could be produced and sold at reasonable cost in the global south do we need something like that here and if so who drives that. i mean the it's a very different question because at present time when we are still in the phase of scientific innovation you would immediately take out the incentive for pharmaceutical country companies to invent a new strategies in aids we could lift up the patents and other things once the inn

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to kovacs presumably only when the u.k. is finished with them it's got far more than it needs only when u.k. the entire population has been vaccinated so we don't know when exactly that will be we don't know how many doses exactly that will amount to he's also pledged 3 quarters of a $1000000000.00 to kovacs the u.s. has pledged quite a bit more there may be other pledges to come at this meeting and boris johnson is talking about a sort of global pandemic cooperation treaty he wants countries to pool their expertise and resources to be better prepared to move more quickly in the face of future pandemic threats what he's not talking about is delivering a single dose of the vaccine to any developing country now as the w.h.o. would like france has come up with a plan a suggestion that the countries to deliver 5 percent of their available stocks now to kovacs with see if that flies at this meeting but there will be certainly steep hurdles to climb in convincing didn't domestic populations still waiting for the vaccine or that n

now garner has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international kovacs scheme the astra zeneca jabs arrived in the capital acra a short time ago these are batches of the vaccines actually being taken off the plane on the tarmac there in akra plane is just in the background how to shop right now at the 600000 bottles have been flown in from india ghana plans to inoculate around 20 percent of the population in the 1st phase of its campaign well the unicef executive director has hailed the delivery of the dates as a historic moment and react to forces with the shipment of doses the un can make good on the promise of kovacs to ensure that people from less wealthy countries are not left behind in the race for life saving vaccines. nearly 2 and a half 1000000 people worldwide have died from corona virus and so far richer countries have been able to buy far more vaccines and poorer ones the un backed scheme called kovacs aims to get vaccines to the most vulnerable people and shared fairly among all nations kovacs aims to deliver more than $2000000000.00 doses to people in

the head of the world health organization which code leads the kovacs program put it bluntly quote vox emotionalism might serve short term political goals but it's ultimately short sighted and self-defeating we will not end the pandemic anywhere until we ended every were part of the problem is that wealthy countries have joined the kovacs initiative but have also made separate deals with vaccine manufacturers this is created an imbalance while poor countries are completely dependent on kovacs richer nations are accused of using it as an added extra. and there's another issue the astra zeneca oxford university vaccine accounts for almost all the doses that the kovacs program wants to start distributing later this month but south africa is delaying the rollout over concerns that the drug may not be effective against the new variant which 1st emerged there we don't want to end up with a situation where we vaccinate a 1000000 people or 2000000 people vaccine that may not be effective in preventing hospitalization and severe disease other countries are now stepping in china has only recentl

vaccines to poorer nations is aiming to inoculate 200000000 people by the end of june the un led kovacs scheme says it's on track to supply 2300000000 doses by the end of the year most of the doses expected for the 1st phase will come from the british swedish drug maker astra zeneca and its partners the sarah means to shoot of india today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of a long term supply agreement with the serum institute of india for the coke 19 vaccines to access to vaccine products through technology transfer from astra zeneca and novak's unicef along with our procurement partners including power who will have access to up to $1100000000.00 doses of vaccine for around $100.00 countries for approximately $3.00 a dose for the low end lower middle income country. as a teenager hear me is an advocates on backs an aging africa and the director of med biotech that's a medical biotechnology lab he says kovacs has taken a big step towards fair distribution of the vaccine. i think it's great news actually because last week's we were given actually through nightmare seeing like a

vaccine that will cover around 3.3 percent of total populations in $145.00 pacific countries but kovacs wants to ensure countries vaccinate at least 20 percent of their populations pfizer biotech has pledged up to 40000000 doses in the coming months and then china has announced a plan to provide it 10000000 coronavirus vaccine doses india's serum institute has agreed to supply 1100000000 doses of the astra zeneca and novak's vaccines to be delivered over a number of years today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of a long term supply agreement with the serum institute of india for the coke 19 vaccine to access to vaccine products through technology transfer from astra zeneca and nova vax unicef along with our procurement partners including power hope will have access to up to 1100000000 doses of vaccines for around $100.00 countries for approximately $3.00 a dose for the low end lower middle income country. well the kovacs facility is planning on delivering more than $35000000.00 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to the caribbean and latin america by the middle of next year by th

strength wealthy nations have pledged to pour more money into the un's credible as vaccination program kovacs which aims to inoculate poor countries the e.u. has promised $1200000000.00 while the u.s. says it will put a $4000000000.00 a un investigation has reportedly found that a problem alleyne of donald trump erik prince violated an arms embargo in libya the new york times says it's obtained the confidential report. one of the former u.s. president donald trump's most restrictive immigration policies as started to be dismantled until friday thousands of asylum seekers want to wait in mexico for their cases to be heard in the u.s. now under the by the ministration up to $25.00 people a day will be allowed to add to the u.s. while immigration courts consider their future. security forces of open fire and hundreds of protesters on the streets of the somali capital mogadishu the violence broke out as a presidential candidate led a barge to did balance the delay to elections hundreds of displaced syrians have been protesting of the rebel held city of it lip they're demanding that president bash

has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international kovacs scheme the 600000 vials were flown in from india kovacs aims to get vaccines to the most vulnerable people and share them fairly among all nations. joe biden is expected to speak with saudi arabia's king solomon before the publication of a u.s. government report on the murder of journalist. it would be by 1st conversation as president with the saudi leader the classified intelligence report is widely believed to employ me implicate the king's son crown prince mohammed bin sandman and killing the trump administration refused to release its our white house correspondent kelly harkat is joining us from washington d.c. so the call between president biden and king sidelined if it happens as scheduled can really will be biden's 1st conversation with the king. it will be the 1st conversation and it may be one that is uncomfortable given what we expect will be the subject matter the white house and the national security council here have not confirmed this call will take place but it is being widely pool ported that

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beginning of a not just vaccination operation in history ghana is the 1st to benefit from the un's kovacs program. a message of defiance continues to sound from the streets of me and mark as the minute trip wanted foreign minister flies to thailand for crisis talks. the un human rights chief accuses sri lanka of systematically ignoring rights abuses during the civil war a claim the government calls unjustified. and sorting out the u.s. postal service and the agency be safe from years of financial hardship and a problem with public trust i'm john ashe with the sports rory mcilroy has spoken of his relief that tiger woods's car crash one of the fatal a 15 time major champion is recovering in hospital after having surgery to repair a serious leg injury. nearly a year after the corona virus outbreak was declared a pandemic the race to vaccinate the world's poorest people against covert 19 is finally accelerating the world health organization says its kovacs program is the largest vaccination operation in history and the 1st 600000 doses for master zeneca have been delivered to ghana which has

led kovacs person practice by 2300000000 doses by the end of the year. and the un's highest court will hear iran's case to overturn u.s. sanctions the international court of justice ruled it does have jurisdiction in the dispute but the u.s. doesn't recognize the authority of that particular court. the former head of the european central bank mario draghi has agreed to attempt to form a new italian government he's been asked by the president to form a known political it ministration of experts to help the nation steer its way out of the economic and political crisis there it comes 3 weeks after the previous coalition government split 70 dekker explains from rome. right on time mario draghi arrives at the presidential palace for his meeting with president that i laugh at the tele toss the former head of the european central bank with forming a government that accepted it on the condition that 1st he had to parliament to ensure a majority and only then he'll give his final response and moment to the feature it's a difficult moment the president mentioned t

to be of little use in terms of pandemic prevention so the whole efforts of the african union the kovacs of the 2 the world health organization and now i'm pleased to say many large countries that are both manufacturing vaccines and have these sorts of vaccines i think that we've got to change the dialogue to say that that really has to be the norm sharing has to be the norm and access for poor countries and particularly in the african region we've got to change the pattern of distribution that has so far prevailed which has been extremely limited. richard there is this issue of changing the mindsets to be able to convince people that it's about time to share the stock buyers they have by the same time of the current pace it seems that millions of people in africa won't be able to get vaccine by this by the end of this year how concerned are you about this particular thing. well we have very very much concern indeed and as professor reserve said the promise of international solidarity has been so far elusive and we believe that . until people you know africa as well are protected and it

air go on a has become the 1st country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the international kovacs skeen the astra zeneca medication arrived in the capital accra on wednesday sarah hart has more. yeah in fact seem to ensure that people from less wealthy countries are protected against covert 19 is being hailed as a historic moment. the rival of 600000 votes from india marks the beginning of a massive campaign that will see more than 2000000000 doses delivered to several developing countries across different continents this could not programs about equity and certainly darity if you follow the vaccination going on around the planet so far it's only citizens from the let the say the better off countries that have benefited from this and from today we're bringing equity gone the plants inoculate around 20 percent of its population in the 1st phase of its campaign but is still not enough and the government says it's working on securing more doses. almost $2500000.00 people worldwide have died from corona virus so far rich countries have been able to buy far more vaccines in poorer ones

ghana has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international kovacs came the ashes then it has jobs arrived in the capital acro a short time ago the 600000 vials were flown in from india and ghana plans to inoculate around 20 percent of its population in the 1st phase of its campaign well nearly 2 and a half 1000000 people worldwide have died from corona virus so far richer countries have been able to buy far more vaccines and poorer ones the un backed scheme called kovacs aims to get vaccines to the most vulnerable people and shared fairly among all nations kovacs aims to deliver more than 2000000000 doses to people in one $190.00 countries in less than a year and those most likely to receive vaccines next will be afghanistan haiti democratic republic of congo ethiopia and somalia well kovacs has raised $6000000000.00 but says it needs at least another 2000000000 to meet its target for 2021 many peer paria is unicef's regional director for western central africa and she says there's still a long way to go to stop poor countries being left behind. this is the 1st st

now ghana has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international kovacs scheme the astra zeneca jobs arrived in the capital across short time ago the 600000 vols have been flown in from india gone up plans to inoculate around 20 percent of the population in the 1st phase of its campaign but the unicef executive director has hailed the delivery of the doses as a historic moment and we have to force says with the 1st shipment of doses the un can make good on the promise of kovacs to ensure people from less wealthy countries are not left behind in the race for life saving vaccines nearly 2 and a half 1000000 people worldwide have died from corona virus so far richer countries have been able to buy far more vaccines than the poor ones the u.n. backed scheme called kovacs aims to get vaccines to the most vulnerable people and shared fairly among all nations kovacs aims to deliver more than $2000000000.00 doses to people in $100.00 in $1000.00 countries in less than a year and those most likely to receive vaccines next will be afghanistan haiti the democratic republic of

ponderous a country with over 9 and a half 1000000 people and more than 3700 kovac deaths so far few vaccines have been administered in march the country is set to receive 25000 doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine that's thanks to kovacs or human initiative that uses money from rich countries to enable delivery of vaccines to less wealthy countries the goal is to immunize a 5th of their populations by the end of the year hundreds itself hardly has the means to place orders. it's not my experience or that i mean. we have to go begging internationally. because honduras is a poor country that has to use its money for other things unfortunately. so there's not enough to place orders with wiser people but it will be at the half i said look . it's the rich countries that have practically monopolized this vaccine by developing countries are simply left behind without access to the cove in 1000 vaccine. is vaccine equity being hindered by the greed of rich countries. dr mchenry the devil's advocate question is it really greed rich countries provided billions in support to the pharmaceutical

reporter: kovacs has not given any country priority.s priorizing is countries who can get the vaccines into ms fast enough. there has been discussion about whether low income countries have the infrastructure to mage a huge vaccination campaign like this. you have to remember a lot of them do, they are already running big vaccination early childhood vaccination programs. the infrastructure is there. the astrazeneca vaccine delivered today, it i easy to store, it requires normal refrigeration. even in the case of complicated vaccines like pfizer and moderna that need -70, one of the first countries in the world to rollout a vaccine against ebola requires that kind of freezing, was the democratic republic of congo, a low income country. ♪ ros: now want to bring you the latest on tiger woods. he was involved in a serious car accident yesterday. the l.a. county sheriff is saying he will not face charges of reckless driving. we will have more on that development in a moment. first of all, let me up to you on his condition. this was from his

ponderous a country with over 9 and a half 1000000 people and more than 3700 kovac deaths so far few vaccines have been administered in march the country is set to receive 25000 doses of the biotech pfizer vaccine that's thanks to kovacs a human initiative that uses money from rich countries to enable delivery of vaccines to less wealthy countries the goal is to immunize a 5th of their populations by the end of the year hundreds itself hardly has the means to place orders. spencer that i mean. we have to go begging internationally. because one door is a poor country that has to use its money for other things unfortunately. so there's not enough to place orders with wiser people but it will be at the half i said look . it's the rich countries that have practically monopolized this vaccine by developing countries are simply left behind and without access to the cove in 1000 vaccine. this vaccine equity being hindered by the greed of rich countries. dr mchenry devil's advocate question is it really greed rich countries provided billions in support to the pharmaceutical companies to help

global rollout of the vaccine and increases access for less wealthy nations the program known as kovacs comes as the number of cases worldwide have dropped for the 5th consecutive win a correspondent role in challenge says middle and low income countries still falling behind in their vaccination programs. we are expecting 330000000 doses to be ministered by the middle of 2021 with something up to 2000000000 doses being given out by the end of the year now last sounds very impressive and it is but. that would still leave. the developing world countries some way behind rich world countries there's a study done by a few key diversity at the beginning of the year released in the beginning of the year which said that the the world's 16 percent richest countries are already bought up 60 percent of the available vaccines so even with kovacs there is inequality in access to vaccines and the w.h.o. has also said that you need about 70 percent vaccine coverage within a population to achieve the herd immunity that would be able to beat covert 19 so even with kovacs is targets of vaccinating 20 per

it's a different story for poorer nations without their own production capabilities that's where kovacs comes in it's a global initiative aimed at ensuring fairer global distribution of covert shots now ghana has become the 1st country to receive vaccine from kovacs. the arrival of the kovacs vaccines brings the wealth one step closer to a worldwide solution for a global pandemic. a plane carrying 600000 tons is it the astra zeneca vaccine developed in the u.k. and produced in india touched down in the command capital. today where the international airport in accra in ghana and this is really a historic moment today we are very happy to receive the 1st batch and most probably the 1000 vaccines through the cold like the c.d.c. . gotten its chops will go to fire is hot spots and essential workers that brought the men i won't just need more vaccine many gun a.n.c. remain unsure that the inoculation is safe i don't have much information about devices in terms of policy but i think once i guess i always know about that i mean. i would want to. leave it as a. gun keep me see why not let me ha

is the right to deny zation to do that on the kovacs initiative is the right initiative to make sure to provide this in our own interest because this is something which we forget in in european countries that it's our own interest to be able to travel to these countries there is this one of the french would've called the tail which we have to have around us and i think senator kerry corden a safety a safety buffer around us so it's in our own interest to extend a solitary solidarity to these countries let me ask you very briefly the aids model in which patent protection was lifted or to some degree modified in order to ensure that crucial medications could be produced and sold at reasonable cost in the global south do we need something like that here and if so who drives that. i mean the it's a very difficult question because at present time when we are still in the phase of scientific innovation you would immediately take out the incentive for homicide think of country companies to invent a new strategies. in aids we could lift up the patents and other things once the innovative of

the world the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is cleared for global rollout through the debris it shows kovacs scheme class. and paul brennan at london's heathrow airport has a policy of hotel quarantine comes into force. and turkey summons the us ambassador with accusations of support for kurdish fighters. follows meanwhile as military intensifies its crackdown on protesters against the february 1st through the u.n. special envoy has told the army the world is watching and a heavy handed response will have severe consequences a curfew is now in place there as well as a near total internet shutdown for the 2nd consecutive night. on monday there were reports that soldiers opened fire with rubber bullets on demonstrators in mandalay myanmar's 2nd largest city and tanks have appeared on streets across the country the army of one but just as they could face up to 20 years in jail if they obstruct soldiers or incite what they call hatred or contempt towards kool-aid is an deposed leader and son says she is to spend a further 2 days under house arrest if you go pilar reports from hong kong. a show o

a pledge not to leave poor countries behind the kovacs alliance unveiled plans to distribute over 300000000 kovan 1000 vaccines in the coming months. the u.s. house prepares to decide the future of the new elected members she's on the fire for backing wild racist conspiracy theories. and climbing taken to new heights a once nations sport set to make its an impact day. the leaders of the military career in myanmar have ordered popular social media apps offline facebook says access to services have been disrupted the police filed criminal charges against depose leader unsound suchi the u.s. is among a number of countries that are condemning monday's military coup but washington has yet to say if it will impose sanctions meanwhile displays of anger continue across . reports. medical workers walked off the job at yangon general hospital in the middle of a pandemic believing that this moment is too important to stay silent they wore red ribbons the color of banks on su cheese national league for democracy which have quickly become a symbol of resistance i meant you know this government was not e