The festive season in India did not lead to any surges and the prediction of a third wave during October–November did not turn out to be right.
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Articles on India's second wave
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India’s poor and vulnerable should be vaccinated first, but their needs have been ignored.
Delta plus might reduce the efficacy of the vaccines currently in use. But we can’t be sure because we’re yet to see good data on this variant.
Years of underfunding and commercialisation have led India’s health system to its current state of collapse.
COVID treatment guidelines in India specify higher doses of steroids than other countries, which could be to blame for the rise in mucormycosis or “black fungus”.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics.
Australia’s current dilemma is that it has achieved local elimination but it is stumbling in the vital follow-up — rapid mass vaccination and quarantine centres.
As the peak of India’s COVID crisis approaches, the country desperately needs more help from the international community.
The Indian government has been keeping an eye out for India’s vaccine producers by not approving any other vaccines, and by letting them charge what they want. It’s the people who are suffering.
Although Australians are generally supportive of closed borders, they are split on whether the pandemic has been a boon for national unity and social cohesion.
University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics.
It became clear this week that repatriation flights for Australians stranded in India would have to resume after May 15, whatever the COVID situation in that country.
Providing foreign aid is not always straightforward. But here are some practical ways Australia might be able to help India.
Indians are now the second-largest group of overseas-born migrants in Australia. Yet, despite their increasing numbers and growing political voice, their concerns are still not being heard.
The official medical advice to the Morrison government recommending “pausing” Australian arrivals from India also contained a blunt warning those stranded risk serious illness and even death.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has declared the government’s travel ban on Australians returning from India, including criminal sanctions, “raises serious human rights concerns”.
Getting the right “balance” is one of the main challenges when framing and executing policies. The difficulties of achieving this are being exposed currently on two fronts – the repatriation of Australians and relations with China.
As India’s COVID crisis deepens, the government is taking a harder line with any social media content it finds objectionable.
Pfizer and Moderna are expected to make billions in revenue this year. It’s time all vaccine producers share their IP, data and know-how with the rest of the world.
The emergence of an Indian “double mutant” strain of the coronavirus may explain the country’s tragically soaring infection rates. Genomic testing and monitoring will be crucial in the weeks ahead.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professor of Bioethics, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professor, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Asian Politics, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Vice President western region, Public Health Foundation of India
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, The Crawford School of Public Policy & The School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Director, Lowy Institute's Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program, and Fellow, National Security College’s Futures Council, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Public Health Foundation of India, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar., Indian Institute of Public Health
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Professor, Head-Lifecourse Epidemiology, Indian Institute of Public Health, Indian Institute of Public Health
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Professor of Economics, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
