Month: May 2021

FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares Russia's "Sputnik-V" vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for inoculation in a post-registration trials stage at a clinic in Moscow

Making Sense of the Spat Between Anvisa and Gamaleya Over Sputnik V Vaccines

The Wire Staff 04/05/2021

Brazilian authorities have been hoping that Sputnik V can...

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India Has Only One Hoolock Gibbon Species, Not Two as Previously Thought: Study

Roopak Goswami 04/05/2021

Scientists say the identification of species and their distributions...

FILE PHOTO: Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Serum Institute of India poses for a picture at the Serum Institute of India, Pune

Serum Institute Plans To Start Vaccine Production Outside India

Kanishka Singh 04/05/2021

Adar Poonawalla said last week that the Serum Institute...

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Obesity Can Help Explain Severe COVID-19 in Young People, Study Suggests

Nerys M. Astbury, Carmen Piernas and Min Gao 04/05/2021

As we age, a weaker immune system and chronic...

Tendu leaves from the East Indian ebony tree are a commonly collected non-timber forest product in India. The leaves are wrapped around tobacco to make local Indian cigarettes. Credit: Subhodkiran via Wikimedia Commons.

India’s COVID Recovery Plan for Indigenous Groups Is Further Marginalising Them

Sushmita 04/05/2021

The assumption underlying compensatory afforestation is that the loss...

Oubreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), near Bengaluru

Trainee Indian Doctors Pulled From Exams To Fight World’s Biggest COVID Surge

Adnan Abidi and Shilpa Jamkhandikar 04/05/2021

The B.1.617 COVID-19 variant has now reached at least...

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Ghaziabad

India’s COVID-19 Cases Near 20 Million, Experts Say Real Number Much Higher

Tanvi Mehta and Shilpa Jamkhandikar 03/05/2021

Hospitals have filled to capacity, medical oxygen supplies have...