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Posted on December 11, 2021

Criticised if delayed in sharing data, punished for diligently posting data

After the first infection by a new variant — it has 32 mutations in the spike protein alone — was confirmed from a specimen collected on November 9, Botswana and…

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Posted on November 20, 2021November 20, 2021

Restrictive voluntary license of COVID-19 antivirals compromises access, says Leena Menghaney

In an email, Leena Menghaney, South Asia Head of Médecins Sans Frontières’s Access Campaign, says that the voluntary license will exclude India from even supplying raw materials (active pharmaceutical ingredients)…

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Posted on October 28, 2021

India scripts history with one billion vaccine doses administered

What makes the accomplishment even more outstanding is the fact that the vaccination programme had targeted adults. Unlike the well-established universal immunisation programme which administers a basket of vaccines to…

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Posted on September 11, 2021

Why countries have abandoned the ‘Zero Covid’ strategy

In an email, epidemiologist Dr. Giridhara Babu from Bengaluru’s Public Health Foundation of India explains why the Zero COVID strategy is impractical and difficult to sustain and tells what could…

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Posted on June 14, 2021June 14, 2021

Even as lab leak hypothesis is based on conjectures, it needs to be investigated

Much like other viruses, SARS-CoV-2 too could have a natural origin after it jumped from animals to humans or could have somehow escaped from the coronavirus research lab located in…

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Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021

Explained: Probing the origin of SARS-CoV-2 virus

As per WHO, the field visits included the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Huanan market, Wuhan CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) laboratory. According to WHO, the team was “limited by visits…

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Posted on February 11, 2021

Conspiracy theories about SARS-CoV-2 virus origin put to rest

Genome sequence data and lab origin While many scientists had dismissed the lab-origin theory, in mid-February 2020, a group of 27 prominent scientists from outside China went a step ahead and “strongly…

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Posted on January 5, 2021January 7, 2022

With hasty approval, India squanders an opportunity to build trust in COVID-19 vaccine

Transparency in the approval process is vital for gaining the trust of people so that they don’t hesitate to take the vaccine. If there is already some degree of anxiety…

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