Page 40 - Vaccination

Best of BS Opinion: China's scientific muscle, sovereign rating risk & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday

Daily Covid-19 cases below 300k after a 26-day run: Health ministry

Cases still rising in many parts; 20% plus positivity in 244 districts

CoWIN website to be available in Hindi and other regional languages soon

This follows criticism of the government that CoWIN was a barrier in vaccinating people in rural India

Starting vaccination with frontline warriors paid rich dividends: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the vaccines have ensured the safety of most of the doctors as 90 per cent of health professionals have already taken its first dose

CoWIN portal in Hindi and 14 regional languages by next week: Govt

The CoWIN portal will be made available in Hindi and 14 regional languages by next week, while 17 more laboratories will be added to the INSACOG network to monitor the variants of Covid-19

Centre should make data on vaccine allocation to states public: Sisodia

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia urged the Centre to make the data on vaccines supplied by it to the states public and sought 3.82 lakh doses of the vaccines for people aged 18-44 years in the city

Amid declining trend, Crisil says too early to say 2nd wave has peaked

Even as new Covid-19 infections have shown a declining trend, credit rating agency Crisil said it is too early to say that the second wave of the pandemic has peaked

Herd immunity unlikely, but CDC says vaccinated people can ditch masks

Experts have estimated that between 60 per cent and 90 per cent of people in the US would need to be vaccinated for that to happen

The way forward for firms

Indian firms need to prepare for export boom by vaccinating employees, their family members; and prioritise export market

Best of BS Opinion: Herbs need good marketing, second Covid-19 wave & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Monday

Covaxin capacity scaled up to 500 million doses a year: Bharat Biotech

Vaccine effective against all emerging coronavirus variants, says study

Cipla open to forge a partnership to distribute Covid-19 vaccines in India

The company already makes and markets antiviral drugs like remdesivir, favipiravir in India apart from importing and distributing Roche's tocilizumab (Actemra)

The vaccine gap

Timelines suggest govt must focus on health infra too

No Covid-19 vaccination in Mumbai on Monday due to cyclone warning

Vaccination was not carried out over the weekend and will not be held on Monday too for the same reason

At Delhi hospitals, shortage and a long wait for Covid-19 vaccine

Private, state govt hospitals struggle; central govt hospitals seem to be doing better

Floating bodies, sinking states

Politics and economics are at the heart of the Covid tragedy in UP and Bihar. The misery is a result of voting in the name of religion, caste and nationalism

A Velumani explains how Covid-19 testing failed us when we needed it most

The second wave has been far more explosive than anticipated, affecting over 300,000 people a day. The sheer volume of the requirement hit the industry like a tonne of bricks

Covid-19: Over 123,000 people vaccinated in Delhi on May 13, says AAP MLA

AAP MLA Atishi said that over 123,000 people were vaccinated the previous day in Delhi and nearly 4.36 million doses had been administered so far

Rahul slams govt over vaccine policy, says purchase should be centralised

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the government's vaccine policy, saying it is compounding problems and demanded that the vaccine purchase should be centralised and distribution decentralised

Managing the 2nd pandemic wave

Many of the criticisms of the government's handling of the pandemic are strictly hindsight or lack a rigorous foundation