-The Telegraph Centre’s revised policy has more than doubled the population of potential beneficiaries without immediate provisions for the extra doses needed India is likely to face extreme shortages of Covid-19 Vaccines if all adults eligible for vaccination begin queuing up for the jabs from May 1, health and industry experts have said. The Centre’s revised vaccination policy has more than doubled the population of potential Vaccine beneficiaries without immediate provisions for the...

-The Hindu Over the last few decades, intellectual property rules have served as a lethal barrier to the right to access healthcare Even an unprecedented pandemic can do little, it appears, to upset the existing global regime governing monopoly rights over the production and distribution of life-saving drugs. If anything, since the onset of COVID-19, we’ve only seen a reaffirmation of intellectual property rules that have served as a lethal barrier to...

-ArunachalTimes.in ITANAGAR, 28 Apr: Arunachal Pradesh will not vaccinate those between the ages of 18 to 44 for now, as the state is yet to receive Covid-19 Vaccines from the manufacturer. The health department is yet to hear from the Vaccine manufacturer, which means all adults below the age of 45 will not be vaccinated for now, though the priority group that includes health care and frontline workers and above 45 will...

-The Hindu U.S. lawmakers and other influential voices have been calling for the U.S. to donate its spare Vaccines to countries like India, particularly some of the tens of millions of doses of AstraZeneca Vaccine. Washington DC: The Biden administration has said that the government of India did not request it for ready-to-use Vaccines, as pressure has been mounting on the U.S. to give out Vaccines to countries such as India, which...

-Moneycontrol.com The RBI’s state of the economy report enlists Benjamin Franklin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Paulo Coelho, Barack Obama, Shakespeare and a host of lesser luminaries to drive home a message of relentless positivity Back in January this year, RBI’s state of the economy report prognosticated that India will have a ‘glorious summer’. Seen in heartless hindsight, that remark was gloriously off the mark. Has the devastating second wave of the pandemic changed the RBI’s...