Vaccinations between health and geo-politics | COVID-19 Special

The COVID-19 immunisation drive is expected to be largest in world history, and that too, within a relatively short time. Gaps may arise, and divisions emerge, as the world is getting "bifurcated" according to their vaccine providers, in an "East vs West" kind of equation. The inactivated vaccine platform used by Sinovac, Sinopharm, Sputnik V and Bharat Biotech means they are more "stable", i.e. they don't need super-cooling, and therefore can offer hope for the underdeveloped parts of the world. Chinese, Russian and Indian-made vaccines have proven attractive to lower and middle income countries, especially the ones who lack the capacity to sustain an ultra-freezing chain needed by mRNA vaccines.”

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[dwnews]

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[jonultime]

The best vaccine is the one that's avaliable. All this politics makes me sick!

[kennybrown]

All these bias journalism is making the profession loose its credibility.

[ddm_]

Meanwhile, India has already rolled out the world's largest vaccination program across the World.

[swapnildhamale]

While devloped Countries are busy to give vacsin to there on people But proud to say my country India have not only thing for our people but we have provided vacsin to our neighborhood countries and other poor developing countries as we always think that this world is one family

[zhikangchen]

It is more about medical industry, less political.

[lNQUlSlTOR]

DW: "People are driven by their fear of getting sick"

Also DW: spreading panick and fear of getting sick...

I love your subtle sense of humor <3

[Benjo]

The serbian guy with the "I hate the internet" book 😂

[martinmkca]

0:26 "don't work as well"?? How does DW come to this assertion?

[Brommear]

On Monday I will receive my first shot of Sinovac. It may not be 100% effective, but it is 100% available.

[MultiSciGeek]

Very interesting how Serbia turned this around. Equally surprising is the population's openness to vaccines, and the fact that the government has made ALL of them available! (although not all seem to be equal). Keep it up Serbia. It's better than nothing or having to deal with antivaxxers.

[pranjalsrivastava]

What about vaccine exports from india ? India is giving free vaccines to so many developed countries, and itself has the fastest vaccination rate. Why is DW not talking about it at all ?

[Alex-llig]

We love all of you people, from Serbia ❤️

[indiaFirstAlways]

Why Nobody is taking about India 🇮🇳 providing COVID-19 vaccine 💉 world over.They have developed their own vaccine too and also manufacturing Pfizer vaccine. India is world’s biggest manufacturer of vaccine and other medicines.

[heyjoe]

@1:26 "[chinese] wouldn't be harming their own people" ....lmao

[deejaybole]

The politics on Balkans are making it difficult to gain trust among people.Thats the main problem of getting people vaccinated.

[markopodganjek]

So today we found out, that Sputnik applied for registration 29.1 and 12 days later EC, officially claim that they haven’t receive application yet.
It has to be put screen shot of application confirmation from EC portal to prove reception/
And this after all important EU and EV politicians claims that would be good yo be registered ASAP.
What a disaster is this EC.

[impressionsbygelay]

I don’t see the point of China giving out vaccines that isn’t as much effective. Specially in this time where there are different types of Covid variant. Waste of time, waste of energy, waste of resources. That’s just my opinion.

[Hypocritial]

India ruled out emergency use application of Pfizer solely on the basis of similar approvals by US and EU without undergoing local clinical trials in India for approval. Pfizer came to India with a neocolonal mentality

[mybrevisai]

Where i live, people don’t even know there is a virus called Corona 😂😂😂, God bless Africa