India will soon have administered one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses, but the milestone masks a yawning gap between the number of people who have been fully inoculated and those that have had just one shot. While it is likely to hit the billion-doses mark this week, the country has only given two shots to 20 per cent…
Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb called for “urgent research” into a mutation of the delta variant known as delta plus following a surge in Covid-19 cases in the U.K. “We need urgent research to figure out if this delta plus is more transmissible, has partial…
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency – India’s counter-terrorism force – will take over the probe into the targeted killing of 11 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir this month, sources said Tuesday morning. The NIA has been mandated by the Home Ministry to investigate a potential larger…
London: Britain has repeatedly trumpeted its mass vaccination programme against Covid-19, hailing its early approval of jabs as a key part of the long struggle to return to normal life. But infection rates remain stubbornly high, contrasting sharply with its European neighbours and prompting fresh questions of…