India coronavirus dispatch: A heat-tolerant vaccine in the works at IISc

Improving case-fatality rate, the reopening of universities, and vaccination intent slips-news on how the country is coping with the pandemic

A "warm" vaccine in the works: Most vaccines need to be transported and distributed between 2 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees celsius in the so-called cold chain. A heat-tolerant Covid-19 vaccine can be transported to remote villages for millions of doses without reliance on the cold chain. Such vaccines are rare, but a team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is working on one for Covid-19. A group of researchers headed by Raghavan Varadarajan, a professor at IISc and