The malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, was developed by GlaxoSmithKline in 1987. Calling it a 'historic moment', WHO said the vaccine should be given to children across Africa.
The status of assessment for Covaxin is ongoing. Bharat Biotech said it submitted data pertaining to its Covid vaccine to WHO on 19 April and is awaiting feedback for the same.
To date, less than 4% of Africans have been fully immunised and most of the 5.7 billion vaccine doses administered around the world have been given in just 10 rich countries.
According to WHO, Mu, also known as B.1.621, was first identified in Colombia in January 2021 & since then, several cases have been reported in South America & Europe.
C.1.2 variant is not as widespread as other Covid variants of concern. Just 107 samples of the variant have been isolated across the world and 95 of them are from South Africa.
Scientists from WHO-China team, tasked with studying origins of Covid, said unidentified animal hosts and early human infections have to be traced immediately because of waning antibodies.
Swaminathan said given India's size and heterogeneity of population, it is 'very feasible' that the situation may continue like this with ups and downs in various parts of the nation.
According to Covid weekly epidemiological update by WHO, Delta variant has been found in 135 countries, Beta variant in 132 and Gamma variant in 81 countries.
Existing data suggests the vast majority of those who are vaccinated don’t need a booster yet. Rolling third doses out broadly at this point is wrong & dangerous.
According to data, the prevalence of Delta exceeded 75% in India as well. The other countries were Australia, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Israel, UK, Russia, Singapore among others.
Today is the anti-socialist era. Libertarianism is fighting; dedicated with all its power and love of liberty. It does not matter whether it wins in the political sphere, wrote KD Valicha in 1957.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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