Moderna Inc. announced its Covid-19 vaccine barely a week after Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement. In a manner reminiscent of the Cold War rivalry, Russia also announced its Sputnik V vaccine on the same day. These are welcome developments which provide a light in the tunnel of the pandemic, but everybody across the world must have access to the Covid-19 vaccines.

Pfizer and BioNTech announced the success of their vaccine candidate against Covid-19 in a first interim analysis from their phase 3 study in the second week of November. PSI calls for the waiver of intellectual property rights as put forward to the WTO by the governments of South Africa and India.

PSI has produced a new paper on the fundamental role strong public and housing services have in halting global pandemics and protecting public health. These services must be fully reclaimed and restored as a critical part of the toolkit governments at all levels have to secure social security and public health for all.

The figure, revealed in new Amnesty International report "Exposed, silenced, attacked: Failures to protect health and essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic", is nevertheless likely to be a significant underestimate

How significant is airborne transmission of the virus which causes Covid-19? This question has bothered scientists, health workers and the public since the global outbreak began in January 2020.

The Covid-19 virus has made landfall in the developing country regions of the world, as feared. This has been with severe consequences, including for refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

“No country can fight the pandemic or manage migration alone. But together, we can contain the spread of the virus, buffer its impact on the most vulnerable and recover better for the benefit of all”, said UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, in a video message on the 3rd of June accompanying the launch of the latest UN policy briefing on the pandemic

As the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA73) commences today, PSI has described the increasing number of infections and deaths of health workers as unacceptable. This is in our statement as a non-state actor in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO)