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530 Needed: A transparent and accountable mechanism of decision-making to fight the second wave and be prepared for the next one. PTI Dinesh C Sharma Science Commentator India is more than one year into the pandemic and is currently facing one of the sharpest waves of the Covid-19 spread. Time and again, our leaders and government experts have invoked the imagery of war while talking about combating the virus. Prime Minister Modi has constantly exhorted people to join this war against the coro...

Synopsis Vaccinations numbers were at 1.82 million on May 1. Leaving aside Sunday (439,906), when vaccination numbers are usually low, total inoculations dropped to 1.73 million on Monday and 1.56 million the next day. This is the lowest since mid-March, except for Sundays and holidays, and well below the peak of over 4 million on some days in April. AP India’s vaccination numbers plunged to a near-two-month low of 1.56 million jabs on Tuesday, days after the new inoculation phase started on ...

A 22-member expert group has recommended 6-to-10-week lockdowns in the districts hit hardest by the second Covid-19 wave, urging far longer closures than the 14-day “local containment” prescribed by the Centre. The group has called for the closure of all indoor public spaces barring those providing essential services, consultations with local community groups and measures to support the poor and vulnerable who are likely to bear the brunt of the closures. Global observations on lockdowns su...

The Straits Times Airborne transmissions could be the next new battle: Daily Star columnist The writer says that it has been impossible to maintain strong directives for public transport to keep spaces between passenger seats as there are too many people waiting for too few vehicles. People are seen at a shopping mall after Bangladeshs government relaxed the rules of the lockdown allowing a few facilities to operate during specified hours in Dhaka on April 25, 2021.PHOTO: AFP Aasha Mehreen Amin...

India’s Covid vaccination policy just became political and perverse Having different procurement channels and varying prices for vaccines threatens to undermine the inoculation programme. Listen to this article: “The nation’s goal must be to ensure that everyone over the age of 18 years is given the vaccine, regardless of their economic circumstances,” Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi wrote to prime minister Narendra Modi. How could it be right, she ask...

India’s shortage of Covid-19 vaccines that precludes immediate inoculation for all adults is rooted in the Narendra Modi government’s lack of funding for key vaccines under development and evaluation, experts have said. The experts, who have tracked global vaccine efforts, said the Indian government’s lack of investments contrasted with the actions of many countries, including America and Britain, that provided advance funding to vaccine makers and signed purchase pacts with them. The Ce...

Vaccinate teachers on priority basis to enable school opening in July ​ By IANS | ​ 1 Views Vaccinate teachers on priority basis to enable school opening in July. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, April 18 : Recommending priority vaccination of teachers and school staff, a Covid task force has said that a safe opening for the education sector can be done by July. The Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force said in a report, "We strongly recommend that teachers and school staff are va...

Recommending priority vaccination of teachers and school staff, a Covid task force has said that a safe opening for the education sector can be done by July. The Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force said in a report, "We strongly recommend that teachers and school staff are vaccinated on a priority basis." "We recognize that in states with high rates of infections, it will not be possible to open schools immediately, especially in the context of clusters of infections in and around ho...

94.4% of Bengaluru’s patients have no symptoms BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 18, 2021, 06:00 IST Bengaluru is reporting a lion’s share of covid cases in the state, there is some consolation. According to the reports, a maximum number of the asymptomatic cases in the State are also from the city. The State covid war room data shows that 99.4 per cent of Bengaluru’s covid patients are asymptomatic, while 95.9 per cent of Karnataka’s patients are asymptomatic. Uttara Kann...

Several cases of infections have been reported after taking Covid vaccinations across the country. The observation may explain some of that, according to Lancet India Task Force.