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1. AT G7 Health Mininters meet, Dr Harsh Vardhan opposes vaccine passport, says the move is discriminatory as vaccine coverage in developig countries is less than the developed countries. 2. The central government says it needs time to vaccinate more and more Indians before we can return to normal. 3. The Pfizer vaccine is far less effective against the Delta variant of Covid, which is dominant in India, compared to the original strain of the coronavirus, says The Lancet journal in a new study. The antibody response to variants is even lower in people who have received just one dose and a longer gap between doses may significantly reduce antibodies against the Delta variant, the study says. 4. Adar Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India gets permission from the country's drugs regulator to make Sputnik V, the Russian COVID-19 vaccine. Mr Poonawalla's company will test, analyse and then manufacture the vaccine at its Pune plant, sources have said. The test licence granted to the Serum Institute means it can develop and manufacture the product for testing, but not sell it. 5. Facebook Inc suspends former U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform until at least January 2023 and announced changes to how it will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future. 6. Nigeria announces it was suspending Twitter operations in the country, saying the platform was being used for activities "capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence." The information ministry says the federal government had 'suspended (Twitter) indefinitely,' in a statement that came two days after the social media giant deleted a remark on President Muhammadu Buhari's official account for breaking its regulations.