LONDON : British health minister Sajid Javid apologised for and deleted a tweet urging people to take a COVID-19 vaccine and not to "cower" from the virus, saying on Sunday he had made "a poor choice of word". Writing on Twitter, Javid said on Sunday he had "deleted a tweet which used the word 'cower'." On Saturday, he had written that he had recovered after testing positive for COVID, after suffering mild symptoms. "Please - if you haven't yet - get your jab, as we learn to live with, rather than cower from, this virus." "127,000 people have died from this virus, tens of thousands of whom would still be here if it wasn't for the catastrophic failures of your government," she said on Twitter.

Source: Mint July 25, 2021 10:52 UTC