Deputy Chief of the Russian Mission (Russian Embassy) Roman Babushkin said that Sputnik vaccine against COVID-19 would definitely support efforts of vaccination in India.
Over 60 inmates and 11 staff members in the three prison complexes of Delhi are presently undergoing treatment for COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday.
The tiny Himalayan kingdom wedged between India and China has vaccinated nearly 93% of its adult population since March 27. Overall, the country has vaccinated 62% of its 800,000 people.
In a letter to the prime minister after her meeting with chief ministers of Congress-ruled states, Sonia Gandhi sought expansion of categories of people eligible for vaccination on the basis of need and exposure rather than age.
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.
Rahul Gandhi said, "The country needs corona vaccine, please raise your voice as everybody has a right for secured life."
Jabalpur administration sealed the medical shop on Sunday night after receiving a complaint against it.
Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while trying to promote doubt about effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made using the previously experimental messenger RNA, or mRNA, process.
Day-1 of the countrywide 'Tika Utsav' saw many workplace vaccination centres becoming operational.
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.
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.
In his letter to PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi 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.
As the state is witnessing a sudden spike, COVID-19 vaccination is need of the hour. In this regard Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo said that Chhattisgarh comes in the top list among the states to vaccinate its people and Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan should correct his statement that people are not getting vaccines.
With the surge in COVID-19 cases, states across the country are facing shortage of vaccines. In this regard, Jharkhand Health Minister, Banna Gupta expressed concern and said, "We have requested Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan to immediately provide us around 10 lakh vaccines for first dose".
We will be able to vaccinate more than 125,000 people per day after Eid. China was the main provider of vaccines, Minister for Planning Asad Umar said.
As India seems to be moving towards witnessing another covid peak, 10 states including Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and Punjab have shown a steep rise in the daily COVID-19 cases accounting for 84.21 per cent of the 1,26,789 new infections, the health ministry said on Thursday.
Britain's COVID-19 vaccination programme is beginning to break the link between infection and serious illness or death, according to the latest results from an ongoing study of the pandemic in England.
State Health Minister Rajesh Tope claimed that Gujarat, which has less population than Maharashtra, has been provided a much larger stock of vaccine by the Centre.
Pawar said the rapid spread of viral infection and rising number of active cases was a cause of concern.
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