- 25 November, 2024
Foreign Affairs, Geopolitics & National Securityvaccine
Quad Leaders’ Summit – Major Outcomes
On September 24, President Biden hosted Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan at the White House for…
Quad Leaders issue Joint Statement after first In Person Summit at White House
Joint Statement by Quad: We, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, convened today in person as “the Quad” for the first time. On this historic occasion…
U.S. Vice President Harris welcomes India’s resuming COVID exports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that she welcomes India's announcement that it will resume COVID-19 vaccine exports. India announced this week that it resume…
Quad leaders to deliver on vaccines, infrastructure, tech -U.S. official
By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A first in-person meeting of the leaders of the Quad group of countries - the United States, Japan, Australia and India -…
EU drugs regulator to decide on Pfizer vaccine booster in early October
(Reuters) -The European Medicines Agency (EMA) aims to decide in early October whether to endorse a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be given half a year after…
Exclusive – EU regulator to decide on Pfizer booster at the start of October – source
By Emilio Parodi and Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) expects to decide in early October on the possible use of a booster dose of the…
Developing nations’ plea to world’s wealthy at U.N.: stop vaccine hoarding
By Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Leaders from developing nations warned the U.N. General Assembly this week that COVID-19 vaccine hoarding by wealthy countries left the door open for…
Japan to double COVID-19 vaccine donations to other countries to 60 million doses
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan plans to give other countries 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday, doubling the target from the previous pledge of…
Italy triples pledge to provide other nations with COVID-19 vaccines
ROME (Reuters) - Italy plans to give other countries 45 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines before the end of the year, three times its original pledge, Prime Minister Mario Draghi…
Brazil and Argentina tapped to make mRNA vaccines in Latin America
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has selected two biomedical centers in Argentina and Brazil as regional hubs to develop and produce mRNA-based vaccines to fight COVID-19…
Stockpiled COVID vaccines must be handed to poorer nations, says former UK PM
LONDON (Reuters) - A vaccine summit being hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden must come up with a plan this week to transfer 100 million stockpiled COVID-19 vaccines to poorer…
EU fails to confirm if women, young adults at higher clot risk from AstraZeneca shot
(Reuters) - Europe's drugs regulator said on Friday it could not confirm if women and young adults were at a higher risk of rare blood clots with low platelets following…
