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Health Check: India’s Covid-19 surge

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People wait to refill empty oxygen cylinders in New Delhi, India

2021/04/28 GMT

India’s Covid-19 surge

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India's Covid surge update. New Malaria Vaccine breakthrough. How moving helps our minds

Anoo Bhuyan gives an update on India’s Covid surge. Also, a new Malaria Vaccine breakthrough and Caroline Williams discusses her new book MOVE! on how moving helps our minds.

As India surpasses 200,000 Covid deaths Claudia asks why the surge has been so steep and hears the latest from health reporter Anoo Bhuyan in Delhi. And there's good news of a new Malaria Vaccine showing 75% efficacy. Studio guest Tabitha Mwangi discusses this important breakthrough in the context of a new study from the Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal with the first clinical evidence of drug-resistant malaria mutations gaining foothold in Africa. Plus Caroline Williams on her new book MOVE! which unpicks the science of how movement opens up a hotline to our minds changing the way we think and feel.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Erika Wright

(Photo: People wait to refill empty oxygen cylinders on 27 April 2021 in New Delhi, India. Credit: Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

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