The vice president, who is the ex-officio president of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), made these remarks at the 19th meeting of its governing council.
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.
The Covid death toll rose to 3,99,459 with 1,005 fresh fatalities, while the national recovery rate improved to 96.97% according to health ministry data released Thursday.
Vaccine hesitancy and misinformation surrounding Covid shots have been widespread in MP's Jhabua district. But the administration has successfully used an old custom to fix that.
Indian Paediatric Covid Study Group monitored 402 children with Covid between March and November last year, found only 9.7% to be moderate to severe cases, while 13% succumbed to disease.
The study by researchers from the University of Kent in the UK also identifies when Covid-19 is likely to have spread to the first five countries outside of China.
Recoveries continue to outnumber daily new cases for the 38th consecutive day. while the national recovery rate improved to 96.27%, the case fatality rate stands at 1.29%.
The deaths are the lowest in the national capital since 1 April, as the positivity rate dipped to 0.18 per cent, according to data shared by the Delhi govt's health department.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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