“People in these camps are living in the shadow of the global vaccine divide,” said Hrusikesh Harichandan of the IFRC. - Pfizer and BioNTech announced plans to manufacture their COVID-19 vaccine at South Africa’s Biovac Institute. - The United States plans to donate half a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses around the globe, but North Korea won’t be on the gift list. The statement asked neighbouring China, Bangladesh, India, and Thailand to allow COVID-19 vaccines into border areas “as a humanitarian gesture”. - Afghanistan is planning a COVID-19 vaccine rollout stretching to the farthest corners of a nation that the government doesn’t fully control.