‘Delta+ unlikely to be significant for pandemic curve’
NK Arora, co-chair of INSACOG, a 28-lab consortium to monitor genomic variations in SARS-CoV-2, explains the likely Covid trajectory to
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‘The Bomber Mafia had a dream about bombing with pinpoint accuracy. Every part of it has come true’
Over a year and a half ago, Canadian bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell visited a tiny dentist-office-like museum in Japan that
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‘Lethality and ferocity of second wave exceeded estimates … new oxygen plants being set up to tackle third wave’
Madhya Pradesh’s government has taken steps to restore normalcy after battling an intense second wave of Covid-19. Shivraj Singh Chouhan,
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‘Kids’ stress can be improvised positively by reducing parents’ stress… parental stabilisation is the key’
Children have been victims of the sudden and traumatic changes brought out by the outbreak of Covid-19. Basant K. Pradhan, associate
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‘IP waiver for Covid vaccines ensures that follow-on manufacturers around the world can have legal certainty’
Unitaid, a global health agency hosted by WHO, works on funding initiatives for therapies of major disease. Rohit Malpani, a public
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‘Until we reach herd immunity, access to widespread testing is the bedrock of pandemic containment’
Several international organisations pitched in to supplement domestic effort to combat the second wave of Covid-19. Rajiv Shah, president, The
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‘A lot of China’s positions are grounded in their environment and cultural conditioning … It’s to do with Chinese nationalism’
As a young diplomat Vijay Gokhale, former foreign secretary, witnessed China’s watershed protests in 1989. It led to his book,
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‘Centre and states are collaborating all the time … the vaccine stock government procures is only for states’
India’s administrative system has borne a heavy burden during the second Covid-19 wave. PK Mishra, principal secretary to the prime
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‘Assam has moved into the top five ranks in literacy rate … in the next 10 years we will be among the top five states’
Assam’s new chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, has promised a more proactive government alongside striking a balance between the state’s socio-political issues
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‘Co-Win would be fairer if it operated as a random lottery … first come, first served is not an appropriate method’
India’s vaccination drive turned into a hackathon after authorities opened eligibility to the 18-44 age group amid a vaccine shortage.
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