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With over 2, 38,000 COVID-19 patients already dead (official estimate) since March 2020, India presents a horrible picture. About 4000 people are dying every day.Experts are skeptical of the government’s figures of cumulative and daily deaths. They point out that most COVID-19 deaths remain unreported and unrecorded. Murad Banaji, a senior lecturer in mathematics at Middlesex University agrees, ‘80% of India’s COVID-19 deaths are are missing and have not been picked up by official death count’. He made the remarks during the course of his interview with renowned journalist Karan Thapar (The Wire magazine). Mr. Banaji has closely tracked ebbs and flows in COVID-19 wave in India during the period March 2020 to May 2021.
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COLOMBO (News 1st); If Sri Lanka does not take decisions based on the advice of medical professionals and the health authorities, the island nation will be in a crisis, warned Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday (10).
“The COVID-19 situation in the country is worsening. There is a shortage of vaccines, oxygen, ventilators, and hospital beds,” said the leader of Sri Lanka’s oldest political party Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The UNP Leader quoted the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to note that Sri Lanka could experience a spike in COVID-19 cases and more than 100 daily COVID-19 fatalities can be expected by June or July.
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The Biden administration unveiled a new vaccine allocation strategy designed to address vaccine hesitancy and access issues. This new strategy coincides with a number of studies on COVID-19 variants that underscore the need for and efficacy of widespread vaccination and continued mitigation efforts.
Biden Unveils New Strategy for Vaccine Distribution
This week President Biden announced a new method for states to obtain vaccines that will enable them to order supply from other states that are not using them. The administration is optimistic that, in prioritizing need over population size to determine allocation, this new strategy will help to address the downturn in vaccination progress. The administration’s initial strategy of establishing mass vaccination sites in order to vaccinate as fast as possible succeeded in getting at least one vaccine dose into more than half of the country’s population. To address vacc