Dr Anurag Agrawal, director, Institute of Genomic and Integrative Biology, also says it’s absolutely imperative that the government prepares for a third wave.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Panna, a tribal-majority district, villagers say they ‘recovered from Covid on our own’. Now they don’t want vaccine, say would rather die from virus than the needle.
Vaccine hesitancy in the Muslim community has little to do with faith as religious scholars have backed Covid vaccination drive. Authorities in Bihar attribute it to misinformation & illiteracy.
US State Department official Gayle E. Smith says India is a ‘major priority’ for US but can’t say what allocation of vaccine doses per country will be.
The health ministry said that Centre has so far provided more than 20 crore vaccine doses to states and UTs of which the total consumption including wastages, is 18,43,67,772 doses.
According to the health ministry, there have been over 42 lakh beneficiaries in the age group of 18-44 years since the country's third phase of the vaccination drive began.
In a virtual meeting, USTR Katherine Tai reaffirmed the United States' commitment to help India. And stated her support for the waiver of IP protections for Covid-19 vaccines.
According to the Union Health Ministry, the government of India has so far provided more than 17.56 crore vaccine doses to states and union territories free-of-cost.
How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.
Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.
Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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