Trade : Agriculture chair to step down on 30 June (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The chair of the Doha agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ambassador John Deep Ford from Guyana, announced on Monday his resignation, to take effect from 30 June.

WHO : Resounding call for access to COVID-19 medical products (PRIV)
(TWN, Geneva)
Civil society organizations and other observers at the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) made strong demands for access to COVID-19 related medical products and technologies in their statements.

COVID-19 : Politics, profits undermine public interest in vaccine race (PRIV)
(IPS, Sydney/Kuala Lumpur)
Sydney/Kuala Lumpur, 26 May (IPS/Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram*) -- With well over five million Covid-19 infections worldwide, and deaths exceeding 340,000, the race for an effective vaccine has accelerated since the SARS-Cov-2 virus was first identified as the culprit.

United States : Leads the world in COVID-19 deaths (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
It's an indisputable fact: the United States leads the world in the number of Covid-19 deaths.