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Covid pandemic — Australia halves overseas arrivals, S Korea cases rise as Delta variant spreads

ThePrint brings you some important global stories on the coronavirus pandemic.

First wave of Covid in India led to increase in misuse of antibiotics, study shows

According to a Washington University study, such misuse of drugs is considered inappropriate as antibiotics are only effective against bacterial and not viral infections such as Covid.

Centre sends teams to Kerala, Chhattisgarh, 4 other states to help manage Covid crisis

Teams will be supporting the states in their efforts to carry out a targeted Covid management, and effectively tackling the pandemic, a Union Health Ministry statement said.

Fortis, Apollo begin administering Sputnik V vaccines at 2 hospitals in Delhi-NCR

The two doses of Sputnik V vaccines are not interchangeable and given 21 days apart. The Centre has fixed the price at Rs 1,145 per dose.

India adds 46,617 new Covid cases, recovery rate surpasses 97%

A net decline of 13,620 cases has been recorded in the total number of active Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, the health ministry report stated.

Confined to your bed? In this Pune satellite town, the vaccine will come to you

Administration of Pimpri-Chinchwad last month started door-to-door vaccinations for those with mobility issues and has already administered doses to about a 100 such people.

J&J says its Covid vaccine neutralises Delta variant, provides ‘durable protection’

J&J said the recipients of its vaccine produced strong neutralising antibodies over the course of at least eight months against all variants, including Delta.

Over 1.24 cr unutilised Covid vaccine doses remain with states & UTs, says health ministry

According to ministry's statement, over 32.92 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states, UTs so far through govt's free of cost channel & direct state procurement category.

Three-dose ZyCoV-D vaccine could be just two doses, says pharma firm Zydus Cadila

Zydus Cadilla says its test data shows that the vaccine appears to be just as effective in 2 doses as 3, and will be administered 28 days apart.

Will look at any text presented at WTO on vaccines IP waiver, says UK vaccines minister

The minister's comments came as the NHS launched plans for vaccines booster jabs as part of a two-stage programme alongside the annual flu vaccination programme from September.

On Camera

Tirupati controversy shows temples can’t run as public sector units. They must be privatised

A private temple could make crores by selling better laddus and investing in goshalas and captive production units to control quality.

After a brief surge, private investment & hiring has again turned cautious. Focus is on cutting debt

Financial year 2022-23 saw private investments & hiring surge, but since then firms are using cash to reduce debt. General elections didn’t help matters, either.

Air Marshal A.P. Singh takes over as IAF chief, task cut out

Air Chief Marshal Singh took over from incumbent V.R. Chaudhari Monday afternoon. His top priority will be strengthening the fighting capability of the IAF, it is learnt.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?