World Coronavirus Dispatch: Jamaica accuses rich world of hoarding vaccines

Experts say Covid out of control in Indonesia, China has vaccinated over 9 million so far, Syndey dwellers take pride in resilience under lockdown and other pandemic-related news across the globe

The world struggles to respond to virus mutations

As the virus is mutating and the vaccination goals are missing, nations are racing against time to study the virus and give shots to more and more people before the virus changes its nature even more. The highly contagious coronavirus variants detected first in Britain and South Africa have been spreading at alarming speeds. Multiple studies have pegged the UK variant's transmissibility between 50 to 70 per cent. That variant has been found in at least 45 countries, leading to border closures, quarantines and lockdowns. Read more

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