- The Supreme Court has questioned the Centre’s logic that manufacturers are selling it COVID19 vaccines for a hefty discount because it places bulk orders. The court then asked the government why it cannot buy 100% of the vaccines at a discount instead of leaving the States to fend for themselves.
- Google told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that the new Information Technology Rules 2021, which came into effect late last month, did not apply to the U.S.based tech giant as it was a “search engine” and not a “social media intermediary” like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
- A week after very severe cyclonic storm, Yaas, struck Odisha coast, the State government on Wednesday said 60 lakh people in 11,000 villages were affected while the natural disaster caused loss to the tune of ₹610 crore.
- India will vote in support of
Maldives’ Foreign Minister
Abdulla Shahid in the election of the President of the
United Nations General Assembly next week, a decision which will disappoint
another close neighbour, Afghanistan, which has former
Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul in the running.
The race between the
South Asian neighbours for
the post, which is being chosen this time from the Asia Pacific grouping, will be decided in the election on June
7.
- The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said that 594 doctors died in the second wave of COVID19 across the country. It released an updated list on Wednesday and noted that Delhi (107), Bihar (96), Uttar Pradesh (67) and Rajasthan (43) lost the most number of doctors so far.
Only Delta is
a variant of
concern: WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said only
B.1.617.2, one of the three
strains of the B.1.617 COVID19 variant first detected in India, is a “variant of
concern” now and noted
that lower rates of transmission have been observed for the other two
lineages.
The B.1.617 variant was
first detected in India and
was divided in three lineages — B.1.617.1, B.1.617.2 and
B.1.617.3.
In the COVID19 Weekly
Epidemiological Update
published on Tuesday,
WHO said available findings for lineages B.1.617.1
and B.1.617.2 were initially
used to designate B.1.617 a
global Variant of Concern
(VOC) on May 11.
“Since then, it has become evident that greater
public health risks are currently associated with
B.1.617.2, while lower rates
of transmission of other lineages have been observed,” WHO said.
“B.1.617.2 remains a VOC
and labelled variant Delta
— we continue to observe
significantly increased
transmissibility and a
growing number of countries reporting outbreaks
associated with this variant. Further studies into
the impact of this variant
remain a high priority for
WHO,” it said.
It said the B.1.617.1 strain
has been reclassified to a
Variant of Interest.
Remembering the Tulsa race massacre 100 years later
This week, U.S. President Joe
Biden became the first sitting American head of state
to officially recognise one of
the worst incidents of violent racial hate in the country’s modern history — the
Tulsa Race Massacre of May June 1921.
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