-The Hindu/ PTI If the containment measures, COVID-19 appropriate behaviour or Vaccination pace slackens, cases can rise again, it said. India has to buy time to ensure that high coverage of Vaccination against COVID-19 is achieved, the government said on Friday. If the containment measures, COVID-19 appropriate behaviour or Vaccination pace slackens, cases can rise again, it said. Data sharing is going on with the WHO to give recognition to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, the...
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COVID-19 Has Made the Rocky Road to Gender Equality Bumpier -Ashwini Deshpande
-TheWire.in From employment and wages to Vaccinations, Indian women are disproportionately bearing the brunt of the pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic is not only making it harder to achieve gender equality in India, but also reversing gains made so far. Men everywhere are more likely to be employed and earn higher wages compared to women. In developed countries, the division between employed (working for wages) and out of the labour force (not working...
More »On CoWIN, Supreme Court flags digital divide
-The Hindu The court quoted from a National Statistics Office survey of 2018 which said that around four per cent of the rural households and 23% of the urban households possessed a computer Taking a dig at the Centre’s argument that the poor and marginalised can lean on friends to register online for Vaccination, the Supreme Court has said even the digitally literate are finding it hard to get vaccine slots on...
More »A fatal war on transparency -Aniket Aga and Chitrangada Choudhury
-The Hindu Official secrecy on pandemic policies aggravates a crisis In August 2020, the Modi government constituted the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) as a nodal agency on all matters related to vaccine administration and rollout. Asked under the Right to Information (RTI) Act for details of the NEGVAC’s meetings, the Health Ministry, which anchors the expert group, replied that it does not know where the concerned documents...
More »Elected autocrats, their pandemic responses -Patrick Heller
-The Hindu In the U.S., India and Brazil, messianic populism, polarisation and insularity have made the pandemic that much worse A year and counting into the greatest health crisis the world has faced in over a century we can identify one overwhelming factor that separates the countries that have done relatively well from those that have been complete disasters:Autocrcy elected autocrats. By any measure the most dismal performers in the democratic world...
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