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PREFACE
With good news that the second wave of the pandemic, which has tested our patience and the extent to which we can tolerate the grief, is subsiding, the life has started crawling back to normalcy. But COVID discipline and appropriate behaviours need to be followed with utmost vigilance.
The present edition, COVID 2021: Nation’s S&T Efforts Against COVID-19, has been compiled with an aim to inform readers and strengthen the usefulness of the information. This edition contains compilation and coverage of information related to capacity enhancement of medical oxygen, start-up spotlights, research contributions, community outreach, COVID resources, fact-checks, and so on. In this edition, the inner pages have been redesigned for the better user perspective. For all the sections, a section guideline has been provided and hyperlinked with the respective locations.
Hopefully, the coverage about how the country is overcoming challenges with the help of knowledge will instil in you a confidence and trust in the country’s scientists and scientific administrators that would ultimately result in inculcating scientific temper. Together we can and we will beat the pandemic out. Going ahead, Vigyan Prasar is ideating on compiling information on presumed, anticipated outbreak of the third wave of the pandemic, and will keep you apprised on the developments.
We wish an engaging reading to our audiences across all strata of the society and look forward to suggestions and feedback at covidnewsletter@vigyanprasar.gov.in. Additionally, feedback questionnaires have been included and a link has been provided for submission. This, in turn, would help our readers in finding desired and more relevant compiled information.
11 June 2021
Vigyan Prasar New Delhi