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• Co-WIN has developed a new API called ‘Know Your Customer’s/Client’s Vaccination Status’, or KYC-VS, which will enable a verifying entity to know whether a person has been vaccinated against coronavirus or not, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.
• An enterprise/employer may like to know the vaccination status of its employees to resume functions in offices, workplaces etc, it added.
• Hotels may want to know the vaccination status of the residents at the time they are checking into the hotel, or at the time of making online bookings, it further said.

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• The World Health Organization urged countries in South-East Asia Region to boost routine immunisation along with efforts to increase covid-19 vaccination coverage.
• Though routine immunisation services were among the first essential services that countries began to restore during the pandemic, the DTP3 coverage in the region dipped to 85% in 2020.

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• In the future, it may also deploy robots to keep an eye out for rule breakers – in fact, Singapore has started testing a robot named Xavier, putting a couple of them to work by having them patrol and survey a public area with high foot traffic.
• Those bad behaviors include the “congregation of more than five people,” which goes against its COVID-19 safety measures.
• The Xavier robots will look for instances of smoking in prohibited areas and illegal hawking.
• Officials believe these robots can help augment those surveillance measures further and reduce the need for officers to do physical patrols.

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• Kishori Pednekar was referring to Nagpur guardian minister Nitin Raut remarks that the city is already been hit by the third wave of Covid-19 amid rising cases in Maharashtra as well as Mumbai.
• The third wave of Covid-19 is already here, Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar said on Tuesday as she cautioned people against celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi outside their homes amid the rising cases of Covid-19 and positivity rate over the past few days in the city as well as Maharashtra.
• Pednekar also urged people in Mumbai to remain at home during Ganesh Chaturthi, which will begin on September 10, as she stressed that they should wear masks and take other precautions to stop the spread of Covid-19.

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• WHO warns new Mu variant of COVID-19 could be more vaccine-resistant.
• South African scientists are closely monitoring the development of another new variant there.
• 2, is not yet a variant to follow, nor a variant of concern, according to the classification of the World Health Organization.

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• It appears to double the total tally of videos removed since the beginning of the pandemic; in January, YouTube said it had removed more than 500,000 videos for COVID-19 misinformation.
• YouTube doesn’t disclose how many videos are uploaded to its massive library, and it hasn’t yet updated its total video-removal stats covering the last five months, obscuring the picture of how coronavirus-related removals stack up to other kinds.
• YouTube generally removes nearly 10 million total videos each quarter, Mohan said in his post.

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