Lucknow district records 10 lakh vaccine shots
India | June 04, 2021 22:35 ISTAs India ramps up its vaccination drive against coronavirus, Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow has administered over 10 lakh (1 million) doses of vaccine.
As India ramps up its vaccination drive against coronavirus, Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow has administered over 10 lakh (1 million) doses of vaccine.
The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to prioritise the vaccination of parents having children below 12 years of age.
The World Health Organisation's top vaccines expert says that immunising children against the coronavirus “is not a high priority”
President Joe Biden announced Thursday the U.S. will swiftly donate an initial allotment of 25 million doses of surplus vaccine overseas through the United Nations-backed COVAX program.
AAP student wings and teacher wings have both urged CM Arvind Kejriwal to open COVID-19 vaccination centers at 28 govt-run Delhi University colleges.
"It's important to us because India has suffered immensely from the outbreak", says Biden admin on increasing COVID 19 vaccine capacity in India.
As the demand for COVID-19 vaccines rises globally, India on Thursday said it would not be right to talk about the supply of jabs to other countries at the moment as it is currently ramping up domestic production for its own inoculation programme.
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday dialed PM Modi and discussed India-US partnership and vaccine support. The phone call was at the request of vice president Kamala Harris.
We can vaccinate one crore people in a day, this is definitely ambitious but not impossible, Chief Economic Advisor KV Subramanian said on Thursday, as country makes contineous efforts to ramp up the inoculation drive.
Globally available Covid 19 vaccines can now be launched in India without the requirement of post approval clinical trials and testing every batch of the vaccine.
The court was hearing a PIL filed by lawyers Dhruti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari, seeking a direction to Union and state govts to start door-to-door vaccination for senior citizens above the age of 75, specially-abled, bed-ridden and wheelchair-bound people.
A total of 1,64,42,938 COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered, the ministry has said.
I don't think the third wave will be as deadly as the second wave. The need is to follow Covid protocol and vaccinate as many people as we can, said AIIMS chief Dr. Randeep Guleria.
The Centre on Tuesday said that by July or early August, there will be enough COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate one crore people a day.
A special anti-Covid vaccination campaign will begin from Tuesday in Noida and Greater Noida for inoculating parents or guardians of children aged 12 or below, officials said on Monday.
Inoculation of beneficiaries in the said age group began on May 1 in Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, Meerut and Bareilly districts, he said.
Earlier, the top court had constituted a 12-member National Task Force to formulate a methodology for the scientific allocation of oxygen to the states and Union territories for saving lives of COVID patients and to facilitate a public health response to the pandemic.
As per the COVID vaccination guidelines, four options are available for carrying out the vaccination drive. Several posts were floating on social media regarding vaccination package offered by star hotels in collaboration with private hospitals.
He said out of quota received from the government of India for the frontline, healthcare workers and people above 45 years of age, 45,53,187 vaccines have been administered. A total of 452,580 people in the age group of 18-44 have been inoculated.
For this, the HNRFH has tied up with Access Life Assistance Foundation, an NGO that provides multi-disciplinary supportive care to families of cancer-afflicted children who come to Mumbai for treatment.
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