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Sri Lanka Sri Lankan authorities are allowing the reopening of cinemas and restaurants and also permitting wedding receptions as a part of the easing of Covid-19 related restrictions.

The Associated Press reports:

Many of [the vaccines] may go to waste - and that would be criminal - which could immediately be airlifted out to those countries where the level of vaccination is so low that not even the nurses and doctors are protected and certainly not the elderly and vulnerable.

Boris Johnson promised at the G7 that he was going to vaccinate the whole world.

He made this bold announcement that, by next year, everybody would be vaccinated who was an adult in the developing world as well as the developed world.

I was talking about neglect.

I do think that this is a lack of co-ordination.