Ensuring universal availability of COVID-19 vaccines should be key priority for global community: Nirmala Sitharaman
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Amid second wave of COVID-19 infections, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that ensuring universal availability of COVID-19 vaccines and ending the pandemic should be the key priority for the global community.
Sitharaman has stated that suggestion of Global Policy Agenda (GPA) to hasten the transition to a low-carbon economy for promoting growth that benefits all needs to be viewed in the context of its implications for the emerging and low-income economies. She also said the burden of economic transformation to a low carbon economy would disproportionately be higher for these countries, and positive benefits may not accrue in the short run.
The minister has stated that the focus needs to remain on the agreed principles of equity and differentiated responsibility of climate action. She highlighted that India has supplied 65 million made-in-India COVID-19 vaccine doses to 80 countries, including 10 million vaccine doses as grant.
