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Covid-19: what you need to know today

Friday was an important day in the global fight against Covid-19. The day was held an informal meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal made by India and South Africa in October, and that since …

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Covid-19: what you need to know today

On Wednesday, New York City decided to close its public schools beginning Thursday after the city achieved a positivity rate (seven-day average) of 3%. This is one of the lowest bars in the US, but given New York’s debilitating first brush with the pandemic in March and April, perhaps it …

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Population group prioritization, storage facility in focus, PM Modi reviews India’s plan for Covid-19 vaccination

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting on Friday to review India’s vaccination strategy in which issues such as prioritization of population groups and the technological platform for the deployment of the vaccine for the coronavirus were discussed. Modi tweeted that the meeting discussed important topics related to the progress …

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