• The World Health Organization renews support for AstraZeneca COVID vaccine aje.io/s4x4h
• Why is India staring at a ‘second peak’ of COVID-19 cases? aje.io/tlr6v
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A year into the pandemic, the numbers of those in India's middle class has shrunk to 66 million, down a third from a pre-pandemic estimate of 99 million, says Pew Research Centre 👇 aje.io/a6gaa
President Jair Bolsonaro asks Brazil’s Supreme Court to reverse COVID-19 restrictions despite infection numbers reaching new heights aje.io/lh8x8
🌏 World Bank rolls out vaccine funds for poor Asian nations aje.io/k3j2m
🇺🇸 US to cross 100 million COVID shots six weeks before Biden's deadline of his 100th day as president aje.io/ddqyx
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COVID-19 pushed 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains: Report aje.io/pq2be
Almost a dozen countries from Indonesia to France have started using AstraZeneca vaccine again, as EMA, WHO and UK bodies quell fears over blood clot reports aje.io/lhmn9
🇧🇷 Brazil records more than 90,000 new COVID cases in a single day aje.io/nwupx
🇵🇰 Pakistan receives second batch of 500,000 vaccines from China aje.io/2gxan
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WHO says keep using AstraZeneca vaccine as the benefits outweigh the risks aje.io/y98ay
The European Medicines Agency says the benefits of AstraZeneca outweigh the risks after several countries pause roll-outs amid fears over blood clots.
"It is unacceptable. It is hateful and it has to stop."
US officials decry hate towards Asian Americans after the deadly shootings in Georgia ⤵️
White gunman charged with 8 counts of murder over the Georgia shootings that US politician Ben Nguyen says appear to be at the "intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia" aje.io/5wlqd
Six of the eight victims murdered in Atlanta were women of Asian descent, prompting fears the killings were racially motivated aje.io/3nx56
In politics, while women’s representation in parliaments has more than doubled globally, it only translates into about 25% of seats. #InternationalWomensDay
The number of women running Fortune 500 companies has hit an all-time record of 37, compared with only 1 in 1998 - but that amounts to only 7% of all the CEOs on the list. #InternationalWomensDay