EVA HAMRUD, METAFACT
1 MAY 2021
Now, over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the beginning of the COVID-19pandemic, we are starting to look forward to a reduced spread of the virus. With the rollout of several effective vaccines and the enforcement of safety measures such as travel bans and quarantine, coronavirus cases are reducing in some parts of the world.
Will it be possible to eliminate COVID-19 at some point in the future, or will it always remain endemic in some regions? We asked eight experts in epidemiology whether COVID-19 will become endemic – 75 percent said yes .
What does endemic mean?
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Robert Menzies Institute to open at Melbourne University
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Robert Menzies, Australiaâs longest serving prime minister, will be remembered with an institute and library at Melbourne University, as a push grows to better preserve prime ministersâ legacies.
The Robert Menzies Institute will open in September inside the universityâs historic Old Quad. It will feature a library and museum as well as a research house dedicated to probing Menziesâ life, his term as prime minister, political ideals and impact on modern Australia.
India News: Given India’s growing strategic importance, its wave of infections risks not only the fledgling recovery in Asia’s third-largest economy, but attempts
Apr 30, 2021
When India launched its COVID-19 vaccination drive in mid-January, the chances of success looked high: It could produce more shots than any country in the world and had decades of experience inoculating pregnant women and babies in rural areas.
“Our preparation has been such that vaccine is fast reaching every corner of the country,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Jan. 22. “On the world’s biggest need today, we are completely self-reliant. Not just that, India is also helping out many countries with vaccines.”
Just over three months later, that initial promise has evaporated and the government’s plans are in disarray. India has fully vaccinated less than 2% of its 1.3 billion-strong population, inoculation centers across the country say they’re running short of doses and exports have all but stopped. Rather than building protection, the South Asian nation is setting daily records for new infections as a second wave overwhelms hospitals and