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Topic: Covid vaccines

India seeks ‘essential two-way travel’ to China, raises concern over denial of visas

According to MEA, even the Indian nationals who want to visit China and have met Beijing's vaccination criteria haven’t been given visas yet.

Jharkhand reports highest vaccine wastage, Kerala, Bengal record negative wastage in May

According to govt data, Covid vaccination numbers in May were less than in April as 8.9 crore inoculations were done, 9 crore vaccines were utilised and closing balance was 80.8 lakh.

AstraZeneca vaccine linked to slightly higher risk of low platelet count, study says

The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, says Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine carries a slightly increased risk of a drop in platelet count and blood clots in arteries.

SAD holds sit-in near Punjab health minister’s residence, seeks his dismissal from cabinet

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal accused the Congress-led govt of ‘making money’ by selling vaccine to private hospitals and asked the CM to dismiss Balbir Singh Sidhu.

Be self-reliant for Covid vaccine as Modi govt fighting for blue tick, says Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi's remark came a day after outrage over the removal of 'blue tick' from the Twitter accounts of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and RSS top functionaries.

Older people may need 3rd shot to stay protected against Delta Covid variant: Lancet study

UK study says single-dose recipients of Pfizer vaccine are likely to be less protected against 3 coronavirus variants of concern —  B.1.617.2 (India), B.1.351 (South Africa) and B.1.1.7 (UK).

Branded ‘vaccine jihadi’, Aligarh nurse says she didn’t give fake shots, calls it conspiracy

Aligarh nurse Niha Khan booked for allegedly not administering Covid vaccines at public health centre, she claims colleagues & authorities are trying to cover up vaccine wastage.

Adar Poonawalla thanks Biden, Jaishankar for policy change to boost Covid vaccine production

Confident of the availability of Covid vaccines in the US, the Biden administration has removed Defense Production Act priority ratings on AstraZeneca, Novavax and Sanofi vaccines.

Govt developing ‘vaccine passport’ with Portugal firm, digital ID that may be future of travel

A mobile health passport or vaccine passport is a digital identification that allows free movement of fully vaccinated people during the pandemic.

Gender gap in vaccine worse than India’s sex ratio: Only 867 women got Covid shot per 1,000 men

Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Himachal Pradesh are the only three states where the percentage of women being vaccinated is higher than that of men.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

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.