The delta variant was first detected in India last October and it led to a massive second wave of Covid-19 cases in the country. Since then, the highly infectious strain has spread globally. The variant has usurped the previously dominant alpha variant, first detected in the U.K. last fall, and has prompted further waves of infections in […] Read more
India will provide free COVID-19 vaccines to all adults, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, in an effort to rein in a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands and led to the world’s second-highest tally of infections. Modi’s announcement on national television came after weeks of criticism of a bungled vaccine rollout that has covered fewer than […] Read more
India is grappling with a devastating second wave of coronavirus that’s far more fatal than the first — and scientists say the surge could be partially due to mutating strains. The World Health Organization just reclassified the B.1.617 strain, which was first identified in India, as a “variant of concern” — which indicates that the variant […] Read more
