COVID-19: Drive in Navi Mumbai to vaccinate potential super-spreaders
India | June 28, 2021 10:25 ISTThe Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has started a campaign to inoculate potential super-spreaders in the township.
The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has started a campaign to inoculate potential super-spreaders in the township.
Actor-turned-TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty on Saturday fell ill, a few days after she was administered a fake COVID vaccine. However, the doctor who attended to the Jadavpur MP said it was too early to link her illness with the fake jab that she had taken four days ago.
About 2.5 million doses of the vaccine will be ready for use by the end of this month, Xinhua news agency quoted Murashko as saying on Saturday.
The nodal officer must submit a weekly report on safety and tolerability of the vaccine doses.
Zydus Cadila has concluded its clinical trials for the 12 to 18 age group, and the vaccine may be available in near future, subject to the statutory permissions.
Under the national COVID-19 vaccination programme Centre has devised a strategy to inoculate the elderly and the differently abled.
The Uttar Pradesh government had launched ‘Mission June’ campaign, a massive vaccination campaign which aimed at inoculating over one crore people in the state against Covid-19 in June.
The Gurugram health department has announced a price cap for the administration of Covid-19 vaccines in private hospitals.
Universities in Hyderabad have stepped up the vaccination of students, non-teaching staff and faculty, ahead of reopening on July 1.
A fake Covid vaccination drive for transgenders, specially-abled persons was busted in Kolkata, says Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mimi Chakraborty. The accused who was running the drive has been arrested.
AstraZeneca vaccine is used in India as Covishield. Real world data from PHE, demonstrated two doses of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca are 92% effective against hospitalisation due to the Delta variant and showed no deaths among those vaccinated.
According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 17,56,775 people have received their first dose in Indore, while 2,70,154 people have received the second dose so far.
In a briefing on Friday, the health ministry had said states would be playing a facilitatory role by aggregating demand and vaccination capabilities of private hospitals in the state and ensure the administrations of vaccinations.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's latest data reveals that more than 29.10 crore (29,10,54,050) vaccine doses have been provided to states and the UTs so far through the Central government (free of cost channel) and through direct state procurement category.
While Ambience Mall in Gurugram is providing free parking and discounted rates on shopping from different brands available in the mall to healthcare workers, various pub bar and restaurants are offering specal discounts to people who are vaccinated against COVID-19.
The Hiranandani Residents Welfare Association of the posh Hiranandani Heritage Society in Kandivali west had lodged the complaint with the local police on Wednesday.
As India's vaccination drive picks up a pace not only the corporate houses but now builders have also launched a special vaccination drive for construction workers.
State Health Minister Raghu Sharma congratulated officers and employees associated with vaccination on administration of 2 crore vaccination doses in the state under Covid-19 vaccination programme.
Speed and scale of vaccination against COVID-19 will shape the path of economic recovery which has the resilience and the fundamentals to bounce back from the pandemic and unshackle itself from pre-existing cyclical and structural hindrances, said a RBI report.
In a bid to fight against COVID-19, a special vaccination drive organised for mothers of newborn children in Chennai.
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