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Japan’s history with vaccines, Cape Town healthcare workers exhausted & other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe

What is the new coronavirus strain in UK and will vaccines work on it?

The new strain was discovered by Public Health England’s genomic surveillance, and it notified the Boris Johnson govt about its seriousness on 18 December.

No consensus at WTO on India, South Africa’s proposal to waive IP rights on Covid vaccines

General Council, the highest decision-making apparatus of WTO, will take up the matter for discussion again on 16-17 December.

WTO meet today to take up India, South Africa’s proposal to waive IP rights for Covid drugs

India and South Africa had jointly submitted the proposal on 2 October seeking ease of intellectual property rights, patents and other provisions for Covid-related drugs.

Mass testing cuts Slovakia’s infection rate, California cases surge & other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

US city introduces ‘mobile morgues’, suicide rates climb in Japan & other global Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

China to test an entire city, pandemic ‘amplifies’ divorce in Canada & other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

South Africa heading toward becoming a failed state, report says

The report by Eunomix blames a structure created during White-minority apartheid era that was designed to exclude the Black majority, creating one of the world’s most unequal societies.

Pandemic drives Scotland’s independence demand, Wuhan hosts pool parties & other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Cities worldwide reimpose lockdowns, South Africa’s ‘hospitals of horrors’ & other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.