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As COVID-19 cases continue to soar in India, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced that a vaccine would possibly be rolled out in the first quarter of 2021.
As India’s eastern state of West Bengal reels under the effects of a devastating cyclone, choosing between life and physical distancing has become tricky.
Unless each sequence of the virus in the global open repositories comes with additional patient information, the practical benefits of such record sequencing are lost.