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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 coronavirus. He spoke about a ‘second big war against corona’ while launching the so-called Tika Uts...

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 May 1. The country had been consistently administering 3-3.5 million vaccine doses daily before May ...

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 suggest that such closures need to be in place for 6 to 10 weeks for Covid-19 cases to fall significan...

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 Bangladesh's 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 https://str.sg/JFs6 They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share l...

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 asked, for the same vaccine to be supplied “at three different prices”? She was referring to ...