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Topic: COVID-19

30% lose Covid immunity 6 months after 2nd jab, age a factor: Indian study on vaccine efficacy

Non-peer-reviewed study by Hyderabad’s AIG Hospitals & Asian Health Foundation focuses on these 30%. AIG head says 70% who retain antibodies can benefit from booster after 9 months.

India registers 3.17 lakh fresh Covid cases in last 24 hours, highest in 249 days

While 491 fatalities were reported during the same time, taking the total death toll to 4,87,693, national recovery rate decreased to 93.09 per cent.

Covid centres, constant watch, doctors on duty — how crammed Delhi prisons are tackling 3rd wave 

Compulsory tests, quarantine for all new inmates, new oxygen plant installed in Tihar. A total of 99 prison inmates & 88 staffers have tested positive for Covid-19 in the third wave.

India logs 2.82 lakh fresh covid cases, 441 fatalities in last 24 hours

Active cases have climbed to 18,31,000, highest in 232 days, and comprise 4.83 % of the total infections, while the national recovery rate has decreased to 93.88%.

TB now officially a Covid comorbidity, disease compromises lungs that virus also targets

The latest clinical management guidelines, released Monday, include seven categories of people who are at 'high risk' of severe Covid or mortality because of it. These include TB patients.

‘Mishandling Covid eroded support for populist govts like Modi’s’: Cambridge democracy study

Modi among populist leaders who responded early with ‘wide-ranging, far-reaching’ policies, but approval still declined. Study adds 'no renewed faith' seen in liberal democracy.

Stretched to breaking point, say govt hospital doctors in Delhi, call for better quarantine

Doctors say shortage happened primarily due to delay in the NEET PG 2021 counselling. But crisis was aggravated by the explosion in Covid infections among government doctors.

Mere 29% travellers got refunds from airlines for cancelled plans during 3rd wave, survey says

LocalCircles asked people about their travel plans between January and March this year, and if they were able to get a refund in case they cancelled. This is what it found.

WHO recommends two new Covid drugs, in discussions to secure ‘equitable access’

Extent to which Baricitinib & Sotrovimab will save lives depends on how available, affordable they will be, says WHO. New guidelines advise against use of Remdesivir, Ivermectin.

Did Djokovic lie about Covid test in Serbia? Report casts doubt on player’s claims

According to an investigation by ‘Der Spiegel’, Novak Djokovic’s claimed dates for his Covid tests don’t match up. He is now set to be deported from Australia after losing his appeal.

On Camera

Asian NATO? Why Japan PM’s big new idea won’t shake up foreign policy

One of the most difficult tasks for Shigeru Ishiba, apart from keeping together the divided LDP, will be implementing his foreign policy ideas—if he chooses to pursue them.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

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?