Category: COVID19

QUAD in the Indo-Pacific

The QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) leaders had their first summit-level meeting on 12th March 2021. Leaders of all four member-states had a virtual meeting to discuss the issues of common interest. Combating the Chinese aggression in...

Vaccine Passports: More harm than good?

The first known case of COVID-19 infection emerged around November-December 2019. The disease reached pandemic levels by 2020. Subsequently, the world invested in finding potential vaccines to fight against this virus. The scientists faced...

India Emerges as the Vaccine Powerhouse

With the world’s biggest inoculation drives against COVID-19, manufacturing about 60% of vaccines globally and shipping millions of free doses to friendly neighbours in the region, in what is being described as “vaccine diplomacy”,...

2020 – A Year when Distancing became Social

A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity the absence of disease or infirmity. – Definition of Health, Preamble of the World Health Organisation...

Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE received U.S. regulatory authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, making it the first inoculation against the new coronavirus to get a regulatory green light in the United States....