• Mashup Score: 59

    The variant has been reported in Bengal from where some of the highest numbers of sequencing have been carried out.

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    • šŸ“Rise of another variantā€”Data submitted from India to the global repository GISAID shows the #B1618, at 12%, is the 3rd most common variant sequenced in the last 60 days. The #B1617, at 28%, is the most common sequenced, followed by #B117. #COVID19 https://t.co/DQXCOCIb6D

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    Every night funeral pyres blaze on the banks of the Ganges, a grim symbol of the ferocious Covid-19 wave sparking a health crisis and human tragedy in India that is fast surpassing anything seen last year.Patients are dying while their families search in vain for hospital beds. Supplies of oxygen and medicines are running low, leading to robberies of drugs from hospitals. Crematoriums and…

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    • 5) Very sobering read by @jburnmurdoch. https://t.co/V1Vfn1NIru

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    As India’s latest COVID-19 wave breaks infection records, Howard Springs records 18 positive cases among returned Australian travellers from India since the weekend.

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    • NZ quarantine facility for incoming travelersĀ is seeing ā€œsharp uptickā€ & record high #COVID19 cases since it began handling repatriation flights, says NT Health Minister. Most cases are from flights from India šŸ‡®šŸ‡³. āž”ļøBorder entry tests + quarantine key. https://t.co/UYm8VKrmz6

  • Mashup Score: 698

    The pause on administering Johnson & Johnson vaccine appears to have little effect, but other messages continue to alienate GOP holdouts.

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    • ā€œI was zero on the vaccine. Iā€™m still a zero.ā€ https://t.co/Pf3z97AGvh

    • This is a very small focus group of just one demographic of vaccine-hesitant people but there are some interesting things here. E.g., the JJ pause didn't bother this group as much as much as the Pfizer CEO saying everyone is going to need booster shots. https://t.co/u9Hw8jdY7q

    • FRESH HELLā€”Most participants (of vaccine hesitant Republican focus group) said they would **want a fake vaccination card** that would allow them to claim they had received shotsā€ when given anonymity to speak honestly. ā€œ1000%ā€ one woman said.šŸ§µ OMG šŸ˜³ https://t.co/3UeC3jc3mf https://t.co/S24g7PtfAe

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    Following interviews with the person who has today returned a positive test for COVID-19, the Ministry of Health believes there is a clear link to the border as the source of the infection.

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    • An airplane janitor staff in AucklandšŸ‡³šŸ‡æ airport, who cleans planes ā€œthat flew internationallyā€ā€”is positive for #COVID19 in weekly testing. 2x-Pfizer vaccinated, family neg, the cleanerā€™s job is ā€œnon-public facingā€. Plane aerosol transmission? (@WicMar ht) https://t.co/I1LfUAw3Di https://t.co/FLB8mNSO34

  • Mashup Score: 50

    Indians have been repeatedly at the receiving end of the Modi administrationā€™s shoddy policy implementations, but never has this incompetency been so closely linked to peopleā€™s health and mortality

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    • Leadership matters. ā€œHow did the [India] fairytale turn into a dystopian tragedy?Ā The truth is that Indiaā€™s #COVID19 fight has been derailed by an irresponsible, arrogant, and opportunist leadership, supported by a pliant and spineless media.ā€ šŸ”„ https://t.co/puL8yKS4Kb