A leading Indian scientist has resigned from a government-appointed Covid-19 task force days after publicly criticising Narendra Modi’s government for its handling of the country’s devastating second wave of the pandemic.
Shahid Jameel, a virologist, was chair of the scientific advisory group for the Indian Sars-Cov-2 Consortium on Genomics, an organisation set up to study variants of the virus.
His resignation followed the publication of a column in the New York Times last week, in which he lamented the “stubborn resistance to evidence-based policymaking”.
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