India is running out of Covid vaccines amid a brutal second wave that has seen both cases and deaths in the country soar to record levels. Today, India reported more than 261,000 new cases of Covid, its highest one-day toll of the pandemic so far - coming off the back of four straight days of record rises. Scientists fear that India's brutal second wave of Covid is being driven by a double-mutated version of the virus that makes vaccines less effective and the disease more infectious. Some 15million people have been given both doses of vaccine, or just over 1 per cent of the total. The initiative was supposed to receive 200million doses of AstraZeneca from India bound for 92 countries, but has so far received just 28million.

Source: Daily Mail April 18, 2021 10:52 UTC