Russia as a whole has seen an explosion of new infections since mid-June driven by the Delta variant, which first surfaced in India and has since mutated into Delta Plus variant.
India is in a desperate fight to deal with skyrocketing infections in a surge fast becoming bigger and deadlier across South Asia, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a bid to bring a massive humanitarian crisis under control.
Trial data from University of Oxford and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine shows it offers similar efficacy against original virus and its more easily transmissible variant circulating in the UK.
Several countries have started to close their doors to travellers from the United Kingdom amid concerns about a rapidly spreading strain of Covid-19 that has caused cases to soar there.
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