More good news: vaccine escape unlikely with B.1.617 variant.
question: this is for Covishield (Oxford-Astrazeneca). What about Covaxxin, which accounts for >10 per cent (and perhaps growing) of vaccines administered currently in India?
10 central Trade Unions & Agriworkers Unions are protesting labour deregulation and anti-farmer(pro-corporate) laws that together strike at the welfare of millions of working households(1/n)
Listen to this @newsclickin interview with A.R. Sindhu, national secretary of CITU, where she explains why the response to #MazdoorKisanStrike has been strong, the new labour codes and the worker-peasant alliance that the general strike represents (2/n)
Over 60 lakh rural frontline workers are on strike
These women worked through the pandemic without masks/PPE and in many states WITHOUT PAY. Scheme workers ensured food and nutrition security in rural India, yet they continue to work for paltry 'honorariums' #MazdoorKisanStrike
Protesting in the cold rain outside the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University.
In strong solidarity with students of #jamia and many others protesting the #CAA2019 across the country.
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Here's @sameeric reading out a statement of solidarity endorsed by 400+ students and academics at the @UniofOxford
Condemning the violence meted out to fellow students.And demanding that citizens be allowed their right to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act #CAA2019
@sameeric@UniofOxford@ucu, the Union representing academic and teaching staff at the @UniofOxford, condemns the brutal police crackdown on student protests in India.