The World Health Organisation has issued a grim warning that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be "far more deadly" than the previous year. Meanwhile, Japan decided to extend the state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped, and India continues to battle pandemic. The World Health Organisation issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped. "We're on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The first token batch of Sputnik vaccines - reportedly 150 000 doses - arrived on 1 May and a second delivery is expected in the next few days.

Source: News 24 May 15, 2021 11:15 UTC