In episode 644 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talked about the latest scientific developments surrounding the new Covid-19 strain spreading in the UK.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
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.
Vaccine escape is an addition to our vocabulary. It means a virus mutating sufficiently to render a vaccine ineffective. Something like mosquitoes becoming resistant to DDT. The Turkish coinventors of the vaccine are expressing the hope that it will work against this new strain, say the vaccine can be modified in six weeks if required. Early in the pandemic, one recalls the hope that this was a creature of the winter, India’s high summer temperatures would cause it to wilt. Instead it seems to be settling at the crease for a long innings. WMD and a swift rollout of the vaccine remain our best hope.
Vaccine escape is an addition to our vocabulary. It means a virus mutating sufficiently to render a vaccine ineffective. Something like mosquitoes becoming resistant to DDT. The Turkish coinventors of the vaccine are expressing the hope that it will work against this new strain, say the vaccine can be modified in six weeks if required. Early in the pandemic, one recalls the hope that this was a creature of the winter, India’s high summer temperatures would cause it to wilt. Instead it seems to be settling at the crease for a long innings. WMD and a swift rollout of the vaccine remain our best hope.