India’s busiest train network serving suburban Mumbai will reopen from 15 August, the chief minister of Maharashtra state has said – but only to those who are fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, in Kerala, the local tourism minister has announced that all tourist destinations will be open from today, despite the southern state .
And according to the latest Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study, mixing the two vaccines most widely available in India — Covishield (AstraZeneca) and Covaxin — offers a “better shield” against coronavirus.
Meanwhile in the US, Covid-19 hospitalisations are reaching an all-time high in several southern states.
And China says it has completed mass Covid-19 testing on 11.3 million people in Wuhan after several cases were reported in the original epicentre of the pandemic.
