Odisha's Bhubaneswar has achieved the milestone of becoming the first city in the country to achieve 100 per cent vaccination coverage against COVID-19, informed Anshuman Rath, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Zonal Deputy Commissioner of South-East, Bhubaneswar.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who alleged shortage of Covid vaccines in July.
Karachi Expo Centre stopped its inoculation drive following chaos after hundreds of people rushed to get themselves vaccinated.
Delhi has a population of about two crore and among them, about 1.5 crore are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the chief minister said.
Over 48.78 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states and UTs so far through all sources and further 68,57,590 doses are in the pipeline.
A fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by the delta variant could strike the country, said Canada’s chief public health officer.
All beneficiaries who have received vaccines in India are registered on the Co-WIN portal, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha
A vaccination camp was organised in Karanai village on Monday afternoon and a huge crowd of villagers had gathered for the inoculation.
The Union government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country.
A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah observed that people are generally compelled to beg on the streets to eke out some elementary livelihood due to the absence of education and employment.
Moderna plans to expand the size of its study in younger children to better detect rare side effects.
Narendra Modi on Sunday underlined that both he and his nonagenarian mother Heeraben Modi were fully vaccinated against the virus and urged people to do the same.
West Bengal has vaccinated over 2.75 crore people so far and out of them, 81.9 lakh got the second dose, the health official said.
If turned out to be productive, the Israeli-made oral Covid vaccine will ease out the process of vaccination and would also not be required a cold-storage set-up, manpower efforts that are needed for administering injections.
The fourth round of the survey covered 36,227 individuals to estimate seroprevalence among children aged 6-17 years, adults and healthcare workers.
The total consumption including wastage is 41,12,30,353 doses.
With 38,740 people discharged in the last 24 hours, the number of recoveries now stands at 3,04,68,079 across the country.
All teaching and non-teaching staff of state-run, aided and private schools across Karnataka would be vaccinated on priority ahead of resuming classes.
Trials for coronavirus vaccine for children are underway in the country ahead of an anticipated third wave of the pandemic.
Before taking the decision of taking the vaccine it is advisable that pregnant women should talk to their gynaecologist and take their opinion whether they should take their vaccine shot or not and if yes, then which vaccine.
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