Pfizer has yet to deliver about 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to the European Union that were due in December, leaving it about one-third short of the supplies it had expected by now. The government has said the South African and Brazilian strains can more easily infect a person's lungs than the UK mutation. India has so far reported 187 cases of infection with the UK variant. The government late on Wednesday said airlines would be required from next week to segregate inbound travellers from those countries. “We will categorise our provinces as low, medium, high, and very high risk based on infection and vaccination rates.

Source: News 24 February 18, 2021 12:11 UTC