PM Skerrit sends SOS to India for COVID-19 vaccine for Dominica; China offers to supply

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Pin Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, is among 92 world leaders who have written to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting access to that country's COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter to Prime Minister Modi on January 19, 2020, PM Skerrit wrote: "As we enter 2021 and persevere in our fight against Covid-19, Dominica's population of 72,100 is in urgent need of enough doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. I, therefore, request, with great humility and respect, that you assist us by donating the doses we need to make our population safe (optimally 70,000 first and second doses)." In the letter, Skerrit…

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