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Russia’s vaccine drive slow, Italy ‘misled’ WHO on pandemic readiness & 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.

US says China must make available data from Covid outbreak’s earliest days

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan expressed concerns about the way in which the early findings of the Covid investigation by the WHO were communicated.

WHO has given China labs clean chit for Covid. But don’t forget PLA’s bio ambitions

Over one year after the outbreak in Wuhan, and with an authoritarian Xi Jinping regime, no genuine probe on the coronavirus spread is possible in China.

‘Extremely unlikely’ Covid virus came from lab leak, probably came from animal host, says WHO

WHO team that investigated origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan says there is no evidence of outbreaks in China before December 2019, rules out further probe into theory that virus was lab made.

That coronavirus did not come from Wuhan lab is comforting, but search shouldn’t end

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Where did Covid come from? Investigator says WHO team has found ‘important’ clues in China

Scientists on the WHO-sponsored mission visited the Wuhan lab as well as the wet market that were widely speculated to be the origin points of Covid-19.

India to get biggest share of Covax shots from WHO despite tepid demand for vaccine

According to an interim distribution forecast, countries are allocated doses according to population size. The second-biggest tranche of 17.2 million shots will go to Pakistan.

Rising backlash as governments exploit Covid data for other uses

One major risk from governments seeking to expand their use of Covid-19 tracking data is that people will be deterred from participating.

WHO team probing Covid origin visits China market where virus ‘jumped from animals to humans’

Coronavirus is believed to have first infected humans at Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Market, where many animals were traded until it was shut down in 2019, when Covid began to spread.

Understanding Biden’s reversal of Trump WHO move — where UN body gets money & how it’s spent

Nearly a year ago, Donald Trump ordered a freeze on US funding to the WHO, a move newly sworn-in US President Joe Biden reversed. Here is why it's significant to the WHO.

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What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

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.