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Statsguru: Covid-19 fears return; vaccination rates still low in India

Around 50 per cent of people over 60 years of age are fully vaccinated. Vaccination is significantly lower for the rest of the country

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Sachin P Mampatta
Chaotic scenes from China have raised fears of the Covid-19 pandemic making a comeback.  The country is going through its worst Covid-19 patch even though the numbers are being questioned. More people have been infected with the virus since August than was the case in the entirety of the previous pandemic period. China reportedly faced 37 million cases of Covid-19 in a day and has stopped publishing daily numbers, though official data had earlier suggested a decline (chart 1).

Global cases have also seen an increase with other nations such as Japan, US and South Korea witnessing rising numbers. The

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