COVID-19 vaccines protect against serious illness but transmissibility can still continue and inoculated people can pass on the infection to others, say scientists, warning against complacency in those who stop maintaining protocol after they get their jabs.
Amazon on Monday said it will cover the COVID-19 vaccination cost for all its India employees and associates as well as those in partner network ecosystem.
Dr Reddy's, which has collaborated with Russia's sovereign fund RDIF, conducted the bridge trial for Sputnik V and has applied for emergency use. If approved by the DCGI, this will be the third vaccine to be available in India. India is currently using Serum Institute of India's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin.
An expert committee of the government has approved the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V for emergency use in India.
Batting for coronavirus vaccine for all, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said it is the need of the country as everyone has the right to a safe life.
Amid rising COVID-19 cases, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray will hold a meeting today. 10,774 new cases and 48 deaths were reported in the national capital in the last 24 hours while Maharashtra reported around 63 thousand new coronavirus cases in last 24 hours.
With the fresh stock of anti-COVID 19 vaccines being made available by the Mumbai civic body, the halted vaccination drive will resume at 62 of the 71designated private hospitals in the megapolis from April 12, municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said on Sunday.
A new Covid-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinopharm has recently been approved for clinical trials.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called the 'Tika Utsav', Covid-19 mass vaccination festival, the beginning of the second big war against Corona and emphasised social hygiene along with personal hygiene.
A total of 90,584 patients recovered in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries to 1,20,81,443 with a recovery rate of 90.80 per cent.
In his interaction with chief ministers to discuss the COVID-19 situation and the ongoing vaccination drive on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had urged them to focus on vaccinating all those who are above 45 years of age in high caseload districts.
The chief further said that COVAX has delivered more than 38 million doses of vaccine to more than 100 countries and economies in the past six weeks.
Speaking on the COVID situation and the vaccination process in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on April 10 said we need to remove age criteria and scale up vaccination.
The single-dose Janssen vaccine is currently only administered in the US under an emergency use authorization. The jab was authorized in the European Union (EU) in March, but the rollout has not started yet in any EU member state.
Inflation and depleted incomes have raised household indebtedness and food insecurity, it said, urging the IMF and the World Bank to scale up its work to address rising levels of food insecurity and to support countries in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 and nutrition for all.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said the number of COVID-19 doses available in the state is insufficient to carry on vaccination and due to this, inoculation will have to be stopped in many districts tomorrow.
A political fight between the Union government and opposition over an alleged shortage of vaccines is intensifies. Rahul Gandhi In his letter to PM Modi, urged to “open up vaccination to everyone who needs it", and added that vaccine exports must be stopped immediately.
They are making up for J&J shortfall by shipping more Moderna vaccines to forces outside the country. The cold temperature and other requirements for Pfizer vaccine make it more difficult to send overseas.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that 9.1 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses have been utilised, while 2.4 crore are in stock and 1.9 crore vaccines are in the pipeline.
Italy recommends the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine only for people aged over 60 from now on, an ordinance by the Health Ministry showed.
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