The Building and Wood Workers International World Board in a virtual meeting held recently expressed concern and solidarity with the people of India, trade unions and the working class amid unprecedented surge of Covid cases and called for equal, inclusive and easily accessible vaccination for all. The Board called for environmental and socially justeconomic recovery plan as the Covid-19 wave could havesignificant impact on wage, job, livelihood and lives.
All workers should have access tofree, safe and effective vaccine against Covid-19, it urged. "We stand with the people of India in this hour of crises," said its generalsecretary Ambed Yuson, while moving a resolution of the Board.
Dr Rama Chandra Khuntia while informing the Board, said the situation has arisen for shortage of beds, oxygen, ventilator and raw materials for vaccines.