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  Democracies facing the Covid-19 pandemic Resolution 2337 (2020) Author(s): Parliamentary Assembly Origin Text adopted by the Standing Committee , acting on behalf of the Assembly, on 13 October 2020 (see Doc. 15157 , report of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, rapporteur: Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger, and Doc. 15164 , opinion of the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee), rapporteur: Ms Yuliya Lovochkina).See also Recommendation 2179 (2020) . 1. The Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest public health crisis the world has faced in recent history. It has already claimed more than 1 million lives across all continents and has had unprecedented multifaceted, wide-ranging and possibly lasting consequences for the social, economic and political life of our societies. It has also been a crash test for governance systems

  Covid-19 vaccines: ethical, legal and practical considerations Resolution 2361 (2021) Author(s): Parliamentary Assembly Origin : Assembly debate on 27 January 2021 (5th Sitting) (see Doc. 15212 , report of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, rapporteur: Ms Jennifer De Temmerman). Text adopted by the Assembly on 27 January 2021 (5th Sitting). 1. The pandemic of Covid-19, an infectious disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, brought about much suffering in 2020. By December 2020, more than 65 million cases had been recorded worldwide and more than 1.5 million lives had been lost. The disease burden of the pandemic itself, as well as the public health measures required to combat it, have devastated the global economy, laying bare pre-existing fault- lines and inequalities (including in access to healthcare), and causing unemployment, economic decline and poverty. 2. Rapid deployment worldwide of safe