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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday in his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly that his country’s vast production of vaccines would serve the world in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
“As the world’s largest vaccine producer, I need to give more security to the global network today,” Modi said in a pre-recorded speech. “India’s vaccine production and distribution capacity will be used for all humanity to fight this crisis. “
The commitment touched on a recurring theme at this year’s General Assembly, which was held almost this year due to the pandemic: considerations on the availability and distribution of coronavirus vaccines, along with fears that rich countries with means and profits will gain advantages from the smallest and poorest. countries that also want vaccines.
Several speakers from last week’s General Assembly, adding Pope Francis, expressed fear that vaccines could be assigned only to those who can. those who so occasionally suffer discrimination because they have no strength or financial resources,” Francis said.
Modi’s obvious generosity to share vaccines came amid questions about how the country would provide such coverage to its own people. Just a few hours before the transmission of Modi, Adar Poonawalla, director of the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine. manufacturer, said the country’s ministry of fitness would want about $1 billion next year for a mass vaccination campaign. “This is the next challenge we face,” he wrote on Twitter.
India, the most populous country of the time after China, reported 5. 9 million coronavirus infections, with more than seven million cases alone, with more than seven million cases.
In his speech to the United Nations, Modi said that India was achieving Phase 3 clinical trials (complex large-scale trials of promising vaccines that ensure their protection and effectiveness) and would help other countries to have garage capacity for vaccine delivery. approved. Vaccinations
Researchers have at least 42 international vaccines in humans, and at least 4 are in Phase 3.
A global collaboration between the World Health Organization, the European Commission and France introduced in April aims at an equitable distribution of vaccines. Known as COVAX, he promised that once vaccines become available, they will be given to countries “regardless of their wealth. “
A woman from central Ohio arrested and caught with a Taser gun this week when she refused to leave a school football game after refusing to cover her face, police said.
A video of the episode in which the woman, Alicia Kitts, yells at the officer, Chris Smith, as he struggles to handcuff her: “Let me go!”She screams.
The Logan Police Department, a city of about 7,000 people southeast of Columbus, said in a statement that a school resource officer saw that Ms. Kitts was sitting in the stands Wednesday without a mask, which the branch said was a violation of a school. Constant Smith continually asked him to put on a mask, but she did not obey, and told the officer that she had asthma, according to the Array and he also continually asked him to abandon the stands, which she refused to do.
When he told her he was under arrest and tried to handcuff his arm on his back, Ms. Kitts resisted and Agent Smith used the Taser gun on his shoulder, according to police account. She was accused of resisting the arrest and trespassing of abode.
“It is vitally important to note that the woman was not arrested for not dressing in a mask; he was asked to leave the premises to continually violate school policy,” police said.
Kitts’ attorney Maurice A. Thompson said in a statement that Officials in the Logan-Hocking School District ignored Ms. Kitts when she told them she had asthma and challenged the officer’s justification that the officer was implementing a school policy on masks.
Mr. Breathing problems. The school’s position “is not consistent with any directive or other law,” Mr. Thompson and the school district “misrepresented the law and handled it poorly randomly and violently. “
Local media reported that the Logan Police Department said calls came from others directing racist insults that opposed Officer Smith, who is black. Marietta Times reported.
Police said the case is still under investigation and there are more pending fees that are opposed to Ms Kitts and some other woman involved in the altercation.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, mask policies have been at the center of conflicts that become violent.
In May, a security guard in Flint, Michigan, was shot dead after an altercation his wife said happened for a visitor who refused to cover his face with canopy. .
New York State recorded more than 1,000 new cases of coronavirus on a single day for the first time since June, when fewer tests were underway.
Of the 99,953 tests reported to the state on Friday, 1,005 were positive, the governor’s workplace said, for a positivity rate of about 1 percent, which is still well below the 5% positivity rate, which, according to fitness experts, indicates the spread of the virus in a community.
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