# Patenting in the time of a pandemic: The pandemic has not dampened patenting activities across the globe, a report from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has revealed.

Covid-linked products: Extraordinarily active patent-filing activity seen during pandemic: WIPO report 

# Not a case of mixing: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study on the effectiveness of mixing and matching of vaccine doses is not enough to make a case for heterologous vaccination, according to Dr Sanjay Rai, a Senior Epidemiologist and Professor at the Centre for Community Medicine at AIIMS, New Delhi. Rai told BusinessLine.

Not the right time to allow mixing of doses, says AIIMS epidemiologist

# Daily tally: In the last 24 hours till Monday morning, there have been 2,503 new cases recorded, and27 deaths including 9 reconciliations – that puts the effective mortality number at 18.

Daily Covid-19 cases in country lowest since May 2020

# Less than 100: The daily Covid cases in Tamil Nadu declined to less than 100 to 95 on Sunday. The State had reported its highest ever number of daily cases at 36,184 on May 21, 2021, during the second wave.

Daily Covid cases in TN decline to less than 100

# Obama tests Covid positive: Former US President Barack Obama has said he tested positive for the coronavirus, though he’s feeling relatively healthy and his wife, Michelle, tested negative.

Obama tests positive for COVID-19, says he’s ‘feeling fine’

# Zero-Covid, will it hold? : China, the country where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019, is among the last remaining devotees to a zero-Covid approach to the pandemic.

As virus cases surge, can China’s zero-Covid strategy hold?

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