Topic: Vaccine

The United States of America, United Kingdom, European Union, France, Germany and Pakistan will immediately make essential supplies proavailable to India, facing a Covid-19 surge, the leaders of countries said.

The Maharashtra government will vaccinate all citizens free of cost against coronavirus, state Minister Nawab Malik announced Sunday.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has announced that it has decided to administer vaccinations for COVID-19 to the entire population in the State free of cost irrespective of age.

In a report on Friday, marking the first anniversary of the COVAX dose-sharing facility, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has denounced "inequities" in vaccine distribution.

The new COVID-19 vaccine policy announced Tuesday, is once again an effort by the central government to absolve itself from the colossal health crisis that they have created, alleged the Polit Bureau of Communist Party of India (Marxist).

The undersigned human rights and digital rights organisations and individuals, including those from the public health community express their deep concern on the National Health Authority’s plans to use facial recognition for “contactless” COVID-19 vaccine delivery. Facial recognition technologies (FRT) pose a grave threat to human rights, including privacy, and are being rolled out in the absence of a valid legal basis. We recognise that the timely and efficient delivery of vaccines is vital. However, the use of facial recognition for authentication does little to ensure this, and will in addition put in place rights-infringing technologies that enable mass surveillance and the erosion of fundamental rights.