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India has recorded a new daily record for coronavirus deaths, with the number registered on Saturday exceeding 4,000 for the first time.
The 4,187 new deaths took India’s overall toll to 238,270 since the pandemic started. It added another 401,078 new cases in 24 hours taking its caseload to nearly 21.9m.
Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, the healthcare research organisation that has taken a global lead in the coronavirus pandemic, has said the world’s wealthier countries “should be sharing vaccines today”.
Speaking on CNN to Christiane Amanpour, Farrar described the US support for waiving vaccine patents as an “historic moment”, but he said that a difference would not be made until the US and European countries distribute their huge stockpiles of vaccines beyond their own populations.
The US supporting waiving vaccine patents “is a historic moment,” says @JeremyFarrar. “But in the short term, it’s not going to change the vaccine access, I’m afraid.” It is urgent, Farrar argues, that “we should be sharing vaccines today.” pic.twitter.com/hqIu1jXKne
This comes back essentially to a small number of countries. It’s essentially through the G&, through the G20, and a small number of other countries and regions - the European Union is part of this as well - to vaccinate their own populations, we all understand the need to do that. But many countries have now made great progress in that.
Here in the UK an incredible number of people have now been vaccinated, same in the United States, transmission is now very low; the number of people in hospital, dying with Covid, in the US, the UK and increasingly in Europe, is now very, very low. We should be sharing vaccines today.
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