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COVID-19 vaccines be recognized as “global public health goods”

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“We can”t prevent pathogens, germs from crossing our borders. And that”s why these vaccines have to be recognised as protecting the whole of the world and the contributions from every country to do that,” Katherine O”Brien, director of WHO”s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, said in a press conference in Geneva on Friday, reiterating COVID-19 vaccines be recognized as “global public health goods”.

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“The outbreak of pathogens don”t recognize borders. Although one country may be able to vaccinate a high proportion of individuals, and in fact, even induce herd immunity in the country, the transmission of pathogens crosses borders,” she said, adding that “we”re all at risk when any country is at risk”.

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O”Brien gave a classic example of measles for illustration: “Measles anywhere is measles everywhere. And when we have measles anywhere, it means every country must continue to immunize and immunize at the rate that it does protect every individual in the community.”

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Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, a global Vaccine Alliance, said that it”s important to “think about the fact that immunization is not only about protecting the individual, but it”s also about creating herd immunity and protecting the rest of society”.

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“And that”s a critical point, because even if you know if your child or your family cannot be immunized, because they have an immunosuppressive disease or because the vaccine doesn”t take. What protects them, is the fact that other people around them are protected, ” he said.

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“That”s why immunization has the characteristics of a global public good, and why in the discussion now, as developing COVID-19 vaccines, one of the critical issues there, is to think about the role it will play in ending the pandemic,” he added, stressing the vaccines” ability “to get rid of infection in surrounding communities, to get rid of reservoirs of infection, etc.”

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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