Mann ki Baat | PM Modi urges people to shed vaccine hesitancy
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June 27, 2021 19:22 IST
Trust science and scientists, not rumours, to combat the threat of COVID-19, he says in the monthly broadcast.
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BJP workers listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Mann ki Baat” radio broadcast in New Delhi on June 27, 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI
Trust science and scientists, not rumours, to combat the threat of COVID-19, he says in the monthly broadcast.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the country to shed vaccine hesitancy and get themselves inoculated soon, and to trust science and scientists to combat the threat of the COVID-19 which still remains among us.
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‘No global scientific evidence that virus targets particular age group,’ says Health Ministry
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‘No global scientific evidence that virus targets particular age group,’ says Health Ministry The possibility of a resurgence in COVID-19 infection is “speculative” and will depend on the “behaviour” of citizens and the virus, the Health Ministry has told the Supreme Court.
“Possibility of any such resurgence would necessarily be speculative at this stage. However, the possibility of resurgence would depend on the behaviour pattern of the virus and the behaviour of the citizens, whether they follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour or not,” the Ministry said.
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India has a problem that is different to and deeper than the problem that the rich countries have, says City University of New York Professor
As the world stumbles through a second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that both its catastrophic toll on human life and the severe socioeconomic dislocation it has caused matter equally. Yet there is growing inequality associated with governments’ and private citizens’ responses to the pandemic regarding access to vaccines and policies to support vulnerable groups. In this context,
Professor Branko Milanovic of the Stone Center on Socio Economic Inequality at the City University of New York, and former lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years, shared with