{"id":30498,"date":"2021-04-02T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/02\/india-in-charge-of-developing-world-covid-vaccine-supply-unsustainable"},"modified":"2021-04-02T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:00:04","slug":"the-worlds-poorest-countries-are-at-indias-mercy-for-vaccines-its-unsustainable-achal-prabhala-and-leena-menghaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30498","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s poorest countries are at India&#8217;s mercy for vaccines. It&#8217;s unsustainable | Achal Prabhala and Leena Menghaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when a third of humanity depends on one manufacturer for Covid jabs. We need to waive patents now<\/p>\n<p>As the UK\u2019s vaccination programme was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d5a26194-9537-4b57-b35a-99236b67823b\">knocked off course<\/a>\u201d due to a delay in receiving five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from India, a far more chilling reality was unfolding: about a third of all humanity, living in the poorest countries, found out that they will get almost no coronavirus vaccines in the near future because of India\u2019s urgent need to vaccinate its own massive population.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s somewhat rich for figures in Britain to accuse India of vaccine nationalism. That the UK, which has vaccinated nearly 50% of its adults with at least one dose, should demand vaccines from India, which has only vaccinated 3% of its people so far, is immoral. That the UK has already received several million doses from India, alongside other rich countries such as Saudi Arabia and Canada, is a travesty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/02\/india-in-charge-of-developing-world-covid-vaccine-supply-unsustainable\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when a third of humanity depends on one manufacturer for Covid jabs. We need to waive patents nowAs the UK\u2019s vaccination programme was \u201cknocked off course\u201d due to a delay in receiving five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1640,6,1066,62,647,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrazeneca","category-business","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-pharmaceuticals-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30499,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30498\/revisions\/30499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}