Day: July 6, 2021

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Seegene announces partnership with Bio-Rad to develop diagnostic testing products for the U.S. Market

  • Seegene announces partnership with Bio-Rad for the development and commercialization of infectious disease molecular diagnostic products
  • Diagnostic tests designed for the pandemic and the post-pandemic era with high multiplex technology
  • A significant step forward for Seegene in expanding its business to the U.S., the world’s biggest in vitro diagnostics market.

SEOUL, South Korea, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Seegene Inc. (KQ 096530), a South Korean leading biotechnology firm has signed a partnership agreement with American biotechnology company Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. to support entering the U.S. market.

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Seegene announced on June 1 that it has signed a partnership with Bio-Rad, laboratories, Inc. for the clinical development and commercialization of infectious disease molecular diagnostic products. Under the terms of the agreement, Seegene will provide diagnostic tests for use on Bio-Rad’s CFX96™ Dx Real-Time PCR System for the U.S. market, pending clinical development and approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

According to the ‘Report on the U.S. In Vitro Diagnostics market Trend’ released by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) in 2020, North America is a very important market, accounting for about 37 percent of the global in vitro diagnostic industry. However, it has been difficult for newer foreign companies to enter the U.S. market because the market has already been dominated by well-established global companies and the U.S. government prioritizes its domestic products. Under such circumstances, the supply deal with Bio-Rad, a biotech giant with over 60 years of history, is expected to be a significant step forward for Seegene in entering the U.S. market.

Founded in 1952, Bio-Rad is a global leader in the fields of life science and clinical diagnostics. The company has been Seegene’s major partner over the past ten years. Previously, Seegene was able to generate some 1 trillion won worth of sales revenue by applying its diagnostic assays to Bio-Rad’s PCR systems that had already been installed globally. This new partnership is expected to streamline the process for Seegene to seek U.S. FDA clearance and the partnership of the two world class companies is expected to drive new U.S. market opportunity.

Seegene plans to submit applications for FDA approval for its diagnostic reagent made of the firm’s high-multiplex diagnostic technology, which is unique in its capability to simultaneously screen multiple target genes on a high throughput real time PCR system. Using Seegene’s proprietary technologies, it can also selectively amplify target genes while identifying different viruses and the number of viruses. Thanks to the deal, Seegene will partner with Bio-Rad to plan to seek U.S. FDA clearance and offer a wide range of its products to U.S. customers.

Under the deal, Seegene intends to seek U.S. FDA clearance for clinical assays on Bio-Rad’s real-time PCR system ‘CFX96  (TM) Dx Real-Time PCR System’.

This includes an intent to clear Seegene’s ‘AllplexTM SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV Assay’, a multiplex real-time PCR assay. Going forward, the company says it is also planning to establish research and manufacturing facilities in the United States. This deal provides the potential access for Seegene to enter the U.S. market with items selected among over 150 diagnostic assays already sold globally.

The AllplexTM SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV Assay can simultaneously detect and differentiate a total of five viruses including Flu A, Flu B, RSV A/B and three target genes of COVID-19 (N gene, S gene and RdRP gene) in a single test. It is also suitable for mass testing and capable of targeting more genes than its competitors’ products. It is also expected to play a critical role in a new pandemic situation by detecting various respiratory diseases as well as genetic variants which may resurge in the U.S. when the country eases prevention guidelines following the nationwide vaccination.

Ho Yi, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Seegene said, “To expand our business in the U.S. market, it is important to work closely with a global company like Bio-Rad that has comprehensive network in the region. Together with Seegene’s advanced technology and Bio-Rad’s solid client base, the two will be able to take the lead in the U.S. market.” He added that “The deal is expected to serve as the steppingstone for Seegene to secure its foothold in the U.S.market. And it will also help increase the company’s revenue and expand the business into other countries going forward.”

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The Globe and Mail’s Sophi.io Wins WAN-IFRA’s North American Digital Media Award

TORONTO, July 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sophi.io, The Globe and Mail’s artificial intelligence-based automation, optimization and prediction engine, won WAN-IFRA’s 2021 North American Digital Media Award in the category of Best Paid Content Strategy. This is Sophi’s fourth award in the last month.

The North American Digital Media Awards honour news publishers that have delivered cutting-edge, unique and original digital media projects in the past year.

“Through the use of this [dynamic paywall] technology, The Globe and Mail truly understands its readers’ habits, leading to best practices in advertising and paid content, smartly adjusting their business strategy,” WAN-IFRA said when announcing the decision.

Phillip Crawley, CEO and Publisher of The Globe and Mail, said: “Winning a WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Award for the second year in a row demonstrates Sophi’s ability to show the publishing industry what the future looks like. We are proud to be able to bring these AI and ML-powered tools to organizations across the globe.”

Sophi was developed by The Globe and Mail to help the newsroom make important strategic and tactical decisions. It is a suite of tools that includes Sophi Automation and Sophi for Paywalls as well as Sophi Analytics, a newsroom decision-support system.

Sophi is an artificial-intelligence system that helps publishers identify and leverage their most valuable content. It has powerful predictive capabilities – using natural language processing, Sophi Dynamic Paywall is a fully dynamic, real-time, personalized paywall engine that analyzes both content and user behaviour to determine when to ask a reader for money or an email address, and when to leave them alone.

As the North American award winner, Sophi is now a contender for the WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Awards, where the winners from North America, Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa, India, and the Middle East compete.

About Sophi.io

Sophi.io (https://www.sophi.io) is a suite of AI-powered optimization and prediction tools developed by The Globe and Mail, Canada’s foremost news media company, to help content publishers make important strategic and tactical decisions. Sophi solutions range from Sophi Site Automation and Sophi for Paywalls to Sophi Analytics, a decision-support system for content publishers. Sophi is designed to improve the metrics that matter most to any business, such as subscriber retention and acquisition, engagement, recency, frequency and volume.

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Jamie Rubenovitch
Head of Marketing, Sophi.io
The Globe and Mail
416-585-3355
jrubenovitch@globeandmail.com

 

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Huawei and Shanghai International Port Group Launch Centralized Remote Control Project for Smart Ports

—Port Intelligent Twins Speed Up Upgrades in the Port & Shipping Industry

SHANGHAI, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — On June 25th, Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) launched its smart command and control center project, with the support from its Shangdong Branch, NeZha Technology, and Huawei. This is the first project in the world to apply optical networking technology for centralized remote control in ports — marking a major breakthrough in the operation of next-generation smart ports. At the launch event, Shangdong Branch, NeZha Technology, and Huawei also signed a Port Intelligent Twins Innovation Cooperation Agreement to emphasize the intention of the three parties to continue their cooperation in building world-class smart ports while promoting the digital transformation of SIPG.

Compared with previous generations of fixed networks, Huawei’s optical networking technology offers improved bandwidth, lower latency, higher reliability, and more connections, capable to fulfill industrial IoT requirements from smart ports. Thanks to its market leading redundancy and reliability features, the optical architecture designed for this project ensures secure and reliable connectivity for various remote control applications that drive port machinery, while also enabling smarter port operations, smooth evolution, and future-oriented investment protection.

“This project marks the first practical application of the centralized remote control in urban areas over port equipment using advanced optical networks. It highlights our commitment to innovation and the use of cutting-edge technologies in an effort to position ourselves as leaders in the market. Currently, we are building a smart, green, high-tech, and efficient port. We are capitalizing on the opportunities presented by digital transformation, optimizing our port operations and management models. Guided by the 14th Five-Year Plan, SIPG will continue to develop a world-class shipping hub. To achieve this, we aim to build an internationally competitive digital port industry, and accelerate the development of Shanghai International Shipping Center and powerful ports. Our vision is to become a world-leading terminal operator and port logistics service supplier,” said Mr. Gu Jinshan, the Chairman of SIPG.

World’s Largest Automated Terminal with Improved Emergency Response and Uninterrupted Operations

SIPG is at the forefront of innovation, building a world-class smart green port to fuel economic development.

The smart command and control center for centralized remote control in urban areas using advanced optical networks was deployed at Phase IV of the Yangshan Port — the world’s largest and most automated container terminal. The terminal covers 2,350 meters of shoreline, and holds seven deep-water container berths, 21 ship-to-shore (STG) cranes, 108 rail-mounted gantry (RMG) cranes, and 125 automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Operating since December 2017, Phase IV of the Yangshan Port is quickly growing its container throughput, having handled 11 million TEUs to date. In fact, the terminal continues to hit various records. Its maximum round-the-clock handling capacity exceeds 21,000 TEUs, and its STG cranes have repeatedly performed over 1000 operations within a calendar day. This production level highlights the effectiveness of the automated system while also testing its stability.

And with the optical networking technology featuring low latency and high reliability, command and control over quay cranes (QCs) and yard cranes is no longer taking place at the port. Instead, remote control is implemented from the Tongsheng Logistics Park and downtown Shanghai. Located over 100 km away from the port, remote operators control a variety of heavy port equipment from a single point to multiple locations. This brings many advantages such as reduced commute times for staff, better predictability of staff availability, and attractiveness of the workplace.

Visualized remote control is an important component as it significantly improves operational efficiency of the port. This project has allowed SIPG to improve the terminal’s emergency response and uninterrupted service capabilities in exceptional circumstances, such as extreme weather conditions. This demonstrates SIPG’s commitment to delivering stable and efficient services to its customers, and marks an important step in building the Shanghai International Shipping Center.

Optical Networking Enables the World’s First Centralized Remote Port Control from a Distance of 100 km

In smart ports, optical networking is mainly used in the Huawei OTN solution to implement WAN interconnection between ports, as well as in the Huawei Industry OptiX solution to accurately and efficiently control large port equipment. This project is seen as a lighthouse project for optical networking applications in the following aspects:

  • First, optical networking technology is applied in the industrial control field (QC control) for the first time to realize “fiber-to-the-machine” deployment that will help reinvent the network architecture of large ports. Enhanced Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (eDBA) technology assigns fixed bandwidth and QoS parameters to channels that carry industrial control services and flexible bandwidth to carry ultra-high definition (UHD) videos, implementing smoother remote QC control over conventional technologies. Moreover, optical networking technology simplifies network layers and centrally carries machine and campus networks, with the visualized network management system (NMS) reducing the O&M workload by 60%.
  • Second, this is the first application of optical networking technology to a backbone WAN of a large port. An all-optical data highway is built between geographically separated ports, achieving outstanding transmission capabilities with Tbit/s ultra-large capacity, μs-level low latency, and zero jitter over distances exceeding 100 km. Such transmission creates infinite possibilities for the application of new technologies and Port Intelligent Twins. This further accelerates the digital transformation of the port industry and large-scale collaboration potential of SIPG’s services.

Building Port Intelligent Twins to Drive Digital Economic Development

Mr. Wang Guoyu, President of the Global Transportation Business Unit of Huawei Enterprise BG, said: “Huawei develops the ‘Port Intelligent Twins’ across all processes, service architectures, and lifecycles of smart ports based on application innovation and ecosystem aggregation. We use digital technologies — such as cloud, and intelligent vision — to deeply integrate with service scenarios of traditional industries, and leverage new ICT to improve intelligence and computing power. In doing so, we enable industry digitalization and upgrades, create new productivity for conventional labor-intensive enterprises, and drive digital economic development.”

Focusing on the Navigation Spirit in the New Era and Accelerating the Transformation and Upgrade of the Shipping Industry

Shangdong Branch, NeZha Technology, and Huawei signed the Port Intelligent Twins Innovation Cooperation Agreement. With the goal of building a world-class comprehensive port service supplier, the three parties will invest in and construct major projects, guided by the use of advanced technologies, and develop industry demonstration applications. They will also aggregate superior talent, technology, and capital resources to empower SIPG’s digital transformation to the highest extent possible.

In order to accumulate and deliver successful digital transformation practices and methodologies for ports globally, the three parties established a joint Port Intelligent Twins innovation center, which achieves all-scenario sensing, interconnection, and intelligence. They will strengthen cooperation in smart port construction, basic service upgrades, technological innovation, and talent cultivation. Aimed at building a world-class port, they will accelerate the overall improvements of SIPG’s intelligence, efficiency, and experience.

Huawei will fully leverage its product and technical advantages to provide comprehensive and efficient ICT products, solutions, and services for SIPG, further driving the group’s digitalization growth. The three parties will continue to work together to promote green port construction, with the help of Huawei’s leading digital power technology.

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Nimo TV, propriété de Huya, remporte une sentence arbitrale contre la violation des engagements contractuels du Livestreamer marocain

GUANGZHOU, Chine, 6 juillet 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Nimo TV, HUYA Inc. (« Huya », NYSE: HUYA), plateforme internationale de streaming en direct, a lancé récemment une procédure d’arbitrage d’urgence au Centre d’arbitrage international de Singapour (SIAC) contre un streamer marocain qui avait enfreint un accord de coopération exclusive avec Nimo TV. Une injonction provisoire a donc été émise par le SIAC. En entamant rapidement une action en justice, Huya a démontré que la société Internet chinoise était déterminée et capable de défendre ses intérêts à l’heure de son internationalisation.

L’injonction du SIAC interdit au streamer marocain de diffuser en direct sur des plateformes, des sites web et des applications qui ne sont pas exploitées par Nimo TV. De plus, le streamer est empêché de participer à des activités commerciales ou promotionnelles par toute plateforme concurrente, y compris Nonolive, la branche de streaming en direct à l’étranger de Douyu, et la plateforme alternative que le streamer a menacé d’adopter. Le streamer est également responsable de dizaines de milliers de dollars de frais, qui comprennent les frais liés à la procédure d’arbitrage d’urgence et les frais juridiques de Nimo TV.

L’industrie internationale du streaming en direct est souvent confrontée à des difficultés lorsque les streamers violent les contrats en changeant de plateforme. Comme les procédures juridiques transnationales sont en général compliquées, coûteuses et difficiles à exécuter, de nombreux streamers internationaux profitent de ces situations et considèrent leurs accords de coopération exclusive comme non contraignants. Lorsque les streamers se voient proposer un prix plus élevé, ils risquent de violer les contrats sans s’inquiéter des conséquences juridiques. Toutefois, à contre-courant de cette idée reçue, les plateformes de streaming en direct, y compris Nimo TV, valorisent fortement le potentiel commercial des streamers et les considèrent comme des partenaires importants dans la production de contenus. À cet égard, lorsqu’elles s’internationalisent, il est crucial que les plateformes de streaming en direct s’assurent que les streamers de différentes nationalités respectent leurs obligations et ne contreviennent pas aux contrats.

La procédure d’arbitrage d’urgence initiée au SIAC représente une étape importante pour Nimo TV. Il n’a fallu que 14 jours entre le dépôt des documents pertinents et la réception de l’ordonnance provisoire, ce qui pourrait dissuader les futurs streamers de violer leurs contrats. En outre, l’injonction contre le streamer marocain est probablement le premier cas de l’industrie du streaming en direct que le SIAC a traité et pourrait fournir des informations pour les plateformes internationales de streaming en direct lors de la gestion de la violation des contrats. Nimo TV cherche désormais à obtenir la reconnaissance et l’exécution de la décision arbitrale par les tribunaux marocains, le Maroc étant le pays d’origine du streamer, pour sécuriser ses intérêts par des moyens légaux.

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Russia, Bangladesh Report One-Day COVID-19 Records

As many countries ease pandemic restrictions amid rising vaccination rates, Bangladesh and Russia both broke one-day COVID-19 records.

Moscow announced that it would ease travel restrictions on Russians who had been vaccinated as it also reported over 700 deaths from COVID-19 — a one-day record for the country — on Tuesday.

According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, some 140,000 Russians have died from the virus. But the true death toll is believed to be much higher.

Bangladesh reported 11,525 positive cases Tuesday, the highest one-day case number since the beginning of the pandemic. The country also saw 163 deaths in the past 24 hours, the government reported.

The country shares a border with India, where the more contagious and serious delta variant emerged. Health experts in Bangladesh believe infection and death numbers are likely higher.

Meanwhile, in Europe, some countries announced Tuesday the easing of some restrictions imposed to quell the spread of the virus.

Germany announced it was lowering travel restrictions due to the delta variant on Britain and four other nations.

The Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s public health agency, said it had downgraded Britain, Portugal, Russia, India and Nepal from its highest risk category of “areas of variant concern” to “high-incidence areas.”

The change means travelers from those countries can avoid going into mandatory quarantine if they can prove they have received a COVID-19 vaccine, while those who have not been vaccinated must enter a 10-day isolation period. The quarantine period can be shortened to five days if a person tests negative for COVID-19.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday that the government is aiming to end its latest lockdown on July 19, despite a growing number of coronavirus cases caused by the highly transmissible delta variant.

Johnson said the mandatory indoor mask wearing and social distancing requirements will end but that businesses could still require them.

He said a final decision on the reopening date would take place next week.

Meanwhile, Israel and South Korea have announced an even swap of COVID-19 vaccines as both countries seek to jump-start their vaccination campaigns.

The deal calls for Israel to send 700,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to South Korea later this month, with South Korea sending back an equal amount of Pfizer vaccine it has already ordered as soon as September.

“This is a win-win deal,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a written statement Tuesday announcing the deal.

The spread of the delta variant, first identified in India, has led to a jump in cases in countries around the world, including in South Korea. Health officials in Seoul reported 711 new cases Monday, the third consecutive day of more than 700 cases. Most cases came from the populated Seoul metropolitan area.

The pandemic continues to affect the international sports world, with organizers of the Australian Grand Prix auto racing event announcing Tuesday that it is canceling the Formula One race for the second consecutive year because of Australia’s strict travel and quarantine mandates.

The race, initially scheduled for March 21, was pushed to November 21, just two weeks after the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, making it impossible for the drivers and their teams to complete Australia’s mandatory 14-day quarantine and prepare for the race. The 2020 race at Melbourne’s Albert Park street circuit was abruptly canceled as the pandemic began to take hold globally.

The Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, which was scheduled for October, has also been scrapped for a second year.

As of late Tuesday, there were more than 184.4 million global COVID-19 cases, including 3.9 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins. The United States continues to lead both categories with 33.7 million total cases and 605,857 deaths.

Johns Hopkins is also reporting more than 3.2 billion vaccine doses have been administered around the world.

Source: Voice Of America

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Florida Condo Collapse Death Toll Continues to Rise

As rescue workers?searched?through?the rubble of the collapsed condominium?building?in South Florida, the death toll rose Monday evening bringing the?number of people who lost their lives to 28?and the number?of people?still unaccounted for?to?117.

Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Chief Alan Cominsky told reporters Monday that search-and-rescue crews are “moving full speed ahead” and are now able to safely access all sections of the rubble pile after the remaining portion of the building was imploded Sunday night.

Cominsky said crews are having to be cautious with lightning and wind gusts kicking up debris as the outer bands of Tropical Storm Elsa affect the region.

The National Weather Service said intermittent storms with some heavy rains and gusty winds are expected through the day Tuesday with conditions starting to gradually improve Tuesday evening as the storm moves farther north.

The search-and-rescue crews have been working since the condominium building in Surfside partially collapsed June 24. No one has been found alive since the earliest hours of the search, but Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava continued to describe the operations as a rescue effort as she addressed a Monday briefing.

Levine Cava described the immense scope of the work, saying crews have removed 2.1 million kilograms of concrete from the site. She said she was in awe of their work through difficult and dangerous conditions.

“For 12 days, fire, smoke, and now wind and torrential rain, they are continuing the mission and the search of the collapse area,” Levine Cava told reporters Monday evening.

Search operations were paused Saturday and Sunday amid concerns that the remaining portion of the building was too unstable and could collapse, especially given the approach of a tropical storm.

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said at the Monday evening briefing that since the rest of the building was taken down, the “site is busier and move active now than I’ve seen it since we began.”

He said heavy equipment that was unable to move around certain parts of the site in the earlier days of the search is now able to operate without limits.

The search for people, he said, “will continue 24 hours a day for the indefinite future until everybody is pulled out of that site.”

Source: Voice Of America

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Unvaccinated Americans Put Communities at Risk, Biden Warns

As 10 U.S. states see a spike in coronavirus cases, President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that “millions of Americans are still unvaccinated and unprotected and, because of that, their communities are at risk.”

In his latest broadcast appeal for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the president said the delta variant of the virus, which is more transmissible and potentially more dangerous, is already responsible for half of the cases in many parts of the country.

The states of Kansas and Missouri, in particular, are reporting double-digit percentage surges in infections due to the delta variant.

To respond to further outbreaks anticipated among the unvaccinated, Biden said the federal government is mobilizing COVID-19 surge response teams, staffed with experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies.

Those teams will help states with “particular problems [to] prevent, detect and respond to the spread of the delta variant among unvaccinated people in communities with low vaccination rates,” Biden said in a speech from the White House South Auditorium.

“We can’t get complacent now,” the president warned.

Vaccine skeptics

Shortly before Biden spoke, the leader of the opposition Republicans in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, said in Kentucky, where only about 43% of residents are fully inoculated, “there’s no good reason not to get vaccinated.”

Targeting his remarks at vaccine skeptics, McConnell said while the vaccines do not guarantee one will not get infected from COVID-19 “it almost guarantees you don’t die from it if you get it.”

Vaccine hesitancy, especially among Republicans, is blamed for the Biden administration falling short of?its goal to have?70% of?American?adults?at least partially inoculated against COVID-19?by July 4.?

Only 45% of Republican have received their first dose, according to a?Washington Post-ABC News poll.?The same poll showed 86% of Democrats and 54% of independents had received at least one vaccine shot. Some minority groups are also lagging in getting vaccinated.

The president on Tuesday said that within a few days there will be “160 million fully vaccinated Americans, up from roughly 3 million when we took office five months ago.”

According to the CDC,?about?67% of Americans had?received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 47% had received two doses just prior to the Independence Day holiday.

There is a stark regional contrast in vaccination rates.?In the Northeast, more than half of adults are fully vaccinated.??

By contrast,?Southern states are performing poorly.?In Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, 35% or less of adults have received full doses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.??

If not in all parts of the United States, there is a desperate demand for those doses in other countries.

Donating vaccines

Biden’s administration on Tuesday announced shipments of Moderna vaccine doses to Guatemala and Vietnam after it fell short of its target of donating 80 million doses to the rest of the world by the end of June.?

All the doses have been allocated, but there have been logistical challenges, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said when asked on Tuesday about the shortfall.

“Sometimes we have to work through legal barriers, we have to work through regulatory barriers. There are issues as it relates to materials needed to distribute these vaccines. And there are also even transportation issues with refrigeration needed as well,” Psaki said during the daily White House briefing prior to the president’s remarks.

“Countries need to be ready to receive them on the ground. And there is no past precedent for this. So, there are certainly lessons that we have learned,” she said.

At a time when vaccine supplies are still limited, there is a need to “figure out what we have excess supply of and how quickly we can export those doses. And in many cases, they may be mRNA vaccines like Pfizer or Moderna, as opposed to the Johnson & Johnson, or even AstraZeneca, that we have some supply of in the U.S. even though it’s not authorized here yet,” said Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, director of the Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University. “There’s a huge amount of country-level planning and country ownership that’s required for this to be successful.”

The 80 million doses pledged by the United States out of the 1 billion promised by the Group of Seven nations will be inadequate for global demand.

Only about 1% of the population in Africa has received any doses, according to the World Health Organization.

“We have locked up in the United States and the G-7 and other EU countries the global supply of the very thing to end this pandemic,” said Tom Hart, acting chief executive officer of the ONE campaign, a group fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease.

“We need 11 billion doses to reach global herd immunity,” Hart added.

Source: Voice Of America