NEW DELHI: Four days before kick-off, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) put off a ministerial meeting that was to decide on crucial global rules, citing heightened risk after the outbreak of the “particularly transmissible” African variant of the coronavirus. The decision, which came on Friday night, followed a fresh Covid wave in Europe with countries such as Switzerland hit particularly hard. Switzerland has one of the lowest vaccination rate in western Europe with an estimated 65% population having been jabbed. The WTO, however, steered clear of the situation in Europe and blamed the new variant found in parts of Africa for the indefinite postponement. “The General Council agreed to postpone the imminent ministerial conference after an outbreak of a particularly transmissible strai...