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One crore registered on e-Sharm portal, says Teli, urges unions to spread awareness

Sep 19, 2021 | , ,

This portal will cater to all unorganised sector workers, including construction workers, migrant workers, gig and platform workers, street vendors, domestic workers, agriculture workers, milkmen, fishermen, truck drivers etc.

”Each registered worker will be given an e-SHRAM card with unique Universal Account Number (UAN) which will allow him/her to access the benefits of the various social security schemes through this Card across the country and will aid the delivery of the social security schemes,” Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameshwar Teli stated.

Struggling economies, widening inequality and millions vulnerable: the urgent need for vaccine equity

Sep 19, 2021 | , , , ,

Inequitable vaccine distribution is not only leaving millions or billions of people vulnerable to the deadly virus, it is also allowing even more deadly variants to emerge and spread across the globe.

Moreover, an unequal distribution of vaccines will deepen inequality and exaggerate the gap between rich and poor and will reverse decades of hard-won progress on human development.
WHO has set a global target of 70 per cent of the population of all countries to be vaccinated by mid-2022, but to reach this goal a more equitable access to vaccines will be needed.Research suggests that enough vaccines will be produced in 2021 to cover 70 per cent of the global population of 7.8 billion. More than 4.6 million people have died from the virus since it swept across the globe from the beginning of 2020, but it’s expected that the rate of people dying will slow if more people are vaccinated.

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