India, which has shipped Made In India Covid-19 vaccines to around 25 nations, urged the international community on Wednesday to halt vaccine nationalism and actively encourage internationalism, underscoring that grabbing superfluous doses will defeat global efforts. to achieve collective health security and combat the pandemic.
Addressing the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar outlined nine points for the international community to consider to help the world decisively leave the Covid-19 pandemic behind and emerge with greater capacity to act. Recovery.
“Stop vaccine nationalism; in fact, actively promote internationalism. The hoarding of superfluous doses will frustrate our efforts to achieve collective health security, ”he said, speaking in the open debate on the implementation of resolution 2532 (2020) on the cessation of hostilities in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He also stressed that disinformation campaigns that take advantage of the pandemic to advance their nefarious objectives and activities must be stopped.
Jaishankar expressed concern that the lack of global coordination regarding vaccine distribution will affect conflict-affected areas and poorer countries the most. He cited that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) estimates that more than 60 million people in those areas are at risk.
India is also concerned about the glaring disparity in vaccine accessibility globally and Jaishankar stressed that equity in vaccine access is important to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
This disparity requires cooperation within the framework of COVAX, which is trying to ensure adequate doses of vaccines for the world’s poorest nations, he said.
In addition, he called for the strengthening of the COVAX facility to ensure the equitable distribution of vaccines to all countries in a fair and equitable manner.
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