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Already going through one of the highest death marks in the pandemic, Brazil is now gearing for the threat of a third wave of Covid-19, fueled by vaccination delays and a lack of covid containment measures.Till now, each coronavirus wave has been successively worse in Brazil, peaking at a weekly average of approx. 1,000 deaths per day in July 2020…

As India’s ruthless second wave of Covid-19 recedes, health and policy experts have called for war footing preparation to prevent a possible third wave that could be even more lethal. Much will depend on how India vaccinates its huge population, but some vulnerable groups might be still at risk.Last month, the Indian government’s Principal Scientist Advisor K Vijay Raghavan stated…

It has been months since a World Health Organization or WHO investigation into the coronavirus disease's (Covid-19) origins concluded it was "extremely unlikely" that the highly transmissible virus "escaped" from China's Wuhan laboratory. Although this whole story, dubbed by the media as the "lab leak" hypothesis, has its advocates in certain quarters, the reluctance of the wider scientific consensus to…

Delta variant ‘more transmissible’  The Delta variant of Covid-19, first identified in India, is “around 40 percent more transmissible” than the Covid-19 Alpha variant, which caused the last wave of infections in Britain, health minister Matt Hancock says. Delta strain of the coronavirus has since become the dominant strain in the United Kingdom, according to official data, threatening the next steps in…

On Thursday, The White House unveiled US President Joe Biden’s vaccine sharing plan with the world, including its intent to direct 75% of excess Covid-19 doses through the UN-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing program. The White House had earlier announced that 80 million vaccine doses will be shared with countries across the globe by the end of June. The US distributes excess…

The overall Covid-19 or coronavirus caseload across the globe has topped 170.5 million, while the deaths have been counted more than 3.54 million, as per the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update last Tuesday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering revealed that the current worldwide caseload and death toll stood at 170,580,362 and 3,546,731, respectively. The United States continues…

Experts warn that the B.1.617 variant of coronavirus is spreading at a 'frightening speed' worldwide and could make the pandemic worse, particularly in countries with low vaccination rates. The B.1.617 strain was recently named the Delta variant of Covid-19 by the WHO.  Professor Teo Yik Ying, Dean of the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, was…