NEW DELHI: The new strain of coronavirus, said to be 70 percent more transmissible, has left countries scrambling to announce travel bans even as the world approaches the Christmas and New Years holidays. Amid fears over the highly infectious new mutant strain of the novel coronavirus, several countries have imposed …
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The Center says India does not need to administer COVID-19 vaccine injections to the entire population. Rather, inoculating a “critical mass” in priority will help break the chain of transmission. If the previous presumption was that everyone would be released, what does this mean? Mint delves into What does the …
Read More »India suffers from community transmission of Covid-19 in some districts: Vardhan
NEW DELHI After being in denial mode for several months since the covid outbreak, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan agreed on Sunday that India is in the midst of community transmission of the disease. However, community broadcasting is limited to only certain districts and states, the health minister said while …
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