Covid live news: Omicron variant detected in Canada as Fauci warns two weeks needed to study new strain

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Singapore and Malaysia have re-opened one of the world’s busiest land borders, allowing vaccinated travellers to make the crossing after nearly two years of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Reuters reports. The sudden closure of the border in March 2020 left tens of thousands people stranded on both sides, separated from families and fearing … Read more

New Coronavirus variant: Delhi LG calls emergency meet to discuss preparation for new Covid variant

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The Indian government has so far not announced any travel ban for passengers coming from affected countries like South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong. In the wake of the emergence of an extremely infectious Covid-19 variant, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has called an emergency meeting to discuss the Covid-19 situation in the national capital. … Read more

Covid live: Germany to join other countries in restricting travel from South Africa over new variant fears

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It has mutations consistent with the Delta variant, which does spread more quickly, but transmissibility and spread is not just as simple as this amino acid does this or this does that, it’s more like a team on things. So you can sometimes have the mutations all together but they won’t be effective as a … Read more

Coronavirus News November 26 LIVE Updates: New Covid-19 variant causes global panic; Centre directs states to strictly screen travellers from South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong

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Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday that India is willing to extend a helping hand to other countries by supplying Covaxin and Covishield vaccines. (Image Source: PTI) Coronavirus Variants and Vaccinations, Coronavirus Active Cases in India Today News, Covid-19 recent cases: South Africa very recently announced that they had detected a new variant of … Read more

International day of Non-Violence: Let all remember

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Gandhi returned to India at the request of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, on 9 January 1915, and led India’s non-violent struggle for freedom. By (Mrs) Amb Narinder Chauhan,  This is still October, a month when we remember the Mahatma. In the year 2007, I was Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs dealing with Africa. … Read more

Covid-19: Check out the quarantine rules for domestic and international travellers to Gujarat

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Travellers to Vadodara without a negative RT-PCR report will have to remain in home isolation till their reports arrive. (Picture courtesy: IE) Gujarat will continue to conduct RT-PCR tests at Ahmedabad and Surat for all travellers from Europe, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. Travellers arriving from Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom … Read more

Pandemic affected 60 mn workers due to gap in labor & social protection: ILO

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected more than 60 million domestic workers worldwide because of the long-standing gaps in the labour and social protection of the workers, the International Labour Organisation said, calling for an urgent need to formalise the domestic workforce. “Domestic workers were more vulnerable to the fallout from the pandemic because of long-standing … Read more

WTO members indicate in-principal acceptance of TRIPs waiver by agreeing to text-based negotiations: Anup Wadhawan

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The agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) member countries to move forward on the text-based negotiations of the proposal by India and South Africa for a temporary waiver from some provisions of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) indicated their in-principle acceptance of the objectives of the proposal, said union commerce secretary Anup … Read more

We have no time to lose, conclude talks on patent waiver proposal by July-end: India

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India has suggested to the WTO members to begin text-based negotiations from mid-June on the temporary TRIPs waiver proposal to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, as there is no time to lose and countries should look at concluding the talks by July-end. The country would also like to enter into line-by-line negotiations on the text … Read more

India, S Africa, 60 others propose 3-year IPR waiver period to fight pandemic

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The 62 co-sponsors of a proposal seeking patent waivers on Covid-19-related medical products including India, South Africa, Indonesia and Pakistan, have suggested a three-year waiver period with a provision to annually review the duration. As per the revised proposal on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement waiver submitted Friday in the World Trade Organization, … Read more