Mehr Gill

Currently, Australia is lagging behind its target of administering at least 60,000 doses of the vaccine by the end of February.

While human challenge trials (HCTs) have helped give important information about several diseases, some have been surrounded by controversy and questions about ethics.  

Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic or can it be eradicated? A recent modeling study published in Science magazine suggests that in a few years, SARS-CoV-2 may be no more virulent than the common cold.

SARS-COV-2 Virus: Researchers are tracking virus variants since some of them might be more deadly than the original virus, they may be more easily transmissible and can have repercussions on the effectiveness of vaccines.

About 2.2 million people in France have received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine so far in what is being seen as a slow rollout considering the country has a population of 67 million.

The decision covers more than 1.7 million Venezuelans who have fled to Columbia in the last few years.

Previously, the chameleon species Brookesia micra was thought to be the smallest. The average length of adults of this species is 16 mm (29 mm with tail), while the smallest adult male has been recorded at 15.3 mm.

According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the organisation garnered media attention after their presence was noted in protests and unrest that followed the shooting of a young African-American by a Ferguson police officer in 2014.

The opposition to abortion comes mainly from Thailand’s majority of conservative Theravada Buddhists who believe that abortion goes against the teachings of Buddhism.

Daniel Pearl, aged 38, was an American journalist who worked as the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal.

Australia Day: In recent years, the celebration has become controversial because of a "change the date" campaign, the supporters of which demand the date of Australia Day be changed from January 26 to May 9.

The Office of Speechwriting is a presidential department in the White House, responsible for researching and writing the President’s speeches.

Joe Biden's Chief of Staff Rob Klain said the administration faces "four overlapping and compounding crises": Covid-19, crisis the resulting economic crisis, climate change, and racial inequity.

Following this, the US and European countries have demanded that Navalny be released from detention.

In August 2020, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, sued the NRA based on allegations that the association’s top executives diverted millions of dollars for their personal trips.

William Burns retired from the US Foreign Service in 2014 and holds the highest rank in the service - that of a career diplomat.

Loujain al-Hathloul was charged under the Saudi's broad counter-terrorism laws for undermining national security and trying to change the political system of the country, a Reuters report said.

Great Conjunction: A pairing between any pair of planets is a conjunction. Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets visible to the naked eye, hence the expression ‘Great Conjunction’.

Saturday’s flight will mark the first crewed flight of the rocket-powered spacecraft that eventually aims to carry tourists to space, which the company claims will start in 2021.

ASKAP surveys are designed to map the structure and evolution of the Universe, which it does by observing galaxies and the hydrogen gas that they contain.

Albayrak announced his decision on Instagram on November 8, saying he was resigning for health reasons. The resignation went largely unreported by the mainstream Turkish media, apparently for fear of a backlash from Erdogan.

Aid workers are struggling to reach communities cut off by washed-out bridges, downed trees and flooded roads in some regions of Central America, which are still reeling from the effects of hurricane Eta.

Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey), which scientists are planning to launch in 2029, will perform a large-scale survey of over a thousand exoplanets over a period of four years.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 14.