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Too early to tell if Covid booster shot is required, WHO’s chief scientist Swaminathan says

Data from countries introducing precautionary extra inoculations later this year — particularly for vulnerable people whose immunity may wane faster — will inform WHO’s guidance.

High time Indian foreign policy jettisons ‘don’t annoy China’ notion & supports virus probe

If coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab, it needs to be investigated. But India must come on board for science, not politics.

Bar association serves legal notice to WHO chief scientist over Ivermectin guidelines

Mumbai-headquartered Indian Bar Association claims WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan ‘ran disinformation campaign’ against Ivermectin.

New polio strategy sets 2026 target to eradicate disease, to focus on vaccine-derived outbreaks

Revised Global Polio Eradication Initiative will also design strategies that address Pakistan and Afghanistan where polio is still prevalent.

How setbacks at India’s Serum Institute have left the world short on Covid vaccines

SII's problems have become a key illustration of how the effort to inoculate developing world has failed, & a cautionary tale for becoming over-reliant on one manufacturer.

Off The Cuff with Nicholas Wade

People are now much more open to finding an alternate explanation for where the virus came from after WHO’s dissatisfactory visit to China in...

Wuhan lab’s deleted data, unreported pneumonia cases — challenges to ‘natural’ origins of Covid

Research group called DRASTIC is trawling the internet, comparing notes & putting up a concerted resistance to Chinese claims, supported by WHO, that SARS-CoV-2 has natural origins.

Only one strain of B.1.617 Covid variant first detected in India now a concern, says WHO

The B.1.617 variant was first detected in India and was divided into three lineages – B.1.617.1, B.1.617.2 and B.1.617.3.

WHO names Covid variants first found in India after Greek alphabets — ‘Kappa’ & ‘Delta’

The UN health agency said the names will not replace existing scientific names but are aimed to help in public discussion of Covid variants of concern & interest.

No guarantee if Wuhan lab lied about research: Fauci at Senate hearing on lab leak theory

Republican lawmakers are demanding Fauci's resignation over what they say is a shift in his position on whether the US government funded research at Wuhan Institute of Virology.

On Camera

Trump stoked the Epstein scandal. It’s come back to bite him

The disgraced financier also seemed to allege in documents that Trump kept company for hours with one of Epstein’s victims.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

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.