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Topic: COVAX

Modi govt allows Serum Institute to export 50 lakh Covishield doses under COVAX to 4 nations

The SII will commence Covid vaccine export under the COVAX programme from 23 November. Nepal, Tajikistan, Mozambique and Bangladesh are the 4 nations that will receive the doses.

World leaders thank India at UNGA session for Covid vaccine shipments, medical supplies

India has exported over 66 million vaccine doses to nearly 100 countries but the country stopped the shipment after the second Covid wave in April this year.

Covid-19 pandemic: Italy sends Iraq AstraZeneca shots, South Africa to use vaccine passports

ThePrint brings you some important global stories on the coronavirus pandemic.

Covax vaccine shortfall puts pressure on wealthy nations to step up

The campaign has run into problems as wealthy nations raced ahead in protecting their people. Only 1/5th of people in poor nations have received a dose, compared with 80% in rich nations.

India to receive share of 8 cr unused US vaccines through COVAX: State Department official

The US will allocate nearly 1.9 crores of the first tranche of 2.5 crore doses of unused Covid vaccines through COVAX to countries in South and Southeast Asia, and Africa.

Global supply of COVAX has suffered big blow due to Covid crisis in India: Top US official

Serum Institute, which had planned to supply over 140 mn doses by June, had to pull back because of the domestic emergency, USAID administrator Samantha Power told US lawmakers.

Vaccine alliance Gavi expects India to resume supplies soon, even if ‘in reduced quantities’

The vaccine alliance had, in March, braced for a delay in Covid-19 vaccine deliveries from India, after the second wave hit the country.

IMF proposes $50 billion global vaccination plan

The organisation aims to cover at least 40 per cent of the global population by the end of 2021 and at least 60 per cent by the first half of 2022.

Never exported vaccine at cost of people in India, Serum Institute says

SII also said that the vaccines were exported earlier in January since a large stockpile of doses were left, and the country's number of Covid cases were at an all-time low.

India’s Covid vaccine export curbs will hurt poor countries more

India’s decision to pare back shipments threatens the Covax group’s plans to inoculate 2 billion people before the end of the year.

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.