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US President Joe Biden has launched a new initiative that will allow Americans to get tested for Coronavirus at a pharmacy and if tested positive, they can immediately receive free antiviral pills. Biden made the announcement during his State of the Union speech. The President also urged his countrymen to prepare for new Covid variants in future. “We must prepare for new variants. Over the past year, we’ve gotten much better at detecting new variants. If necessary, we’ll be able to deploy new vaccines within 100 days instead of many more months or years,” Biden said, reported PTI.
India, on the other hand, is slowly going restrciton free and opening up its cities, schools, gyms, parks, and cinemas. After a hiatus of months, life seems to be back to normal with many offices also resuming pre-Covid mandatory in-person attendance. But is it too soon? After the IIT-Kanpur study, now a BHU expert has said that authorities should wait till May before they decide to lift all the coronavirus restrictions. Prof Anil Kumar Gulati, former head of the microbiology department at Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU said that the virus is and will remain in circulation. Hence the chance of mutation are very much there. Though he doesn’t expect any rerun of the Delta variant, Prof Gulati feels that officials should wait before taking any drastic measure.
