The country's active caseload stands at 1,46,950 the lowest in 255 days. Active cases account for less than one per cent of total cases, currently at 0.43 per cent, lowest since March 2020.
The G20 leaders committed to achieving food security and adequate nutrition for all, leaving no one behind. G-20 nations, including India, also committed to strengthen actions to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.
"Considering that coronavirus keeps mutating, we have to work out mechanisms for systematic and quick upgrade of vaccines," Putin told a G20 summit.
These “should be our policy goals,” Sitharaman said at the in-person meeting of the 4th G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors under the Italian presidency.
We can use drones in delivering important life-saving medicines, collecting blood samples, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted, "Congratulations to the nation, as we administer another 1 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India delivers a punch to Corona - Record of 1+ crore vaccines achieved for the 5th time."
The United States and its international partners are working quickly to scale up vaccine manufacturing in other countries around the world so they can manufacture as well, Biden said in his virtual address to the Global Summit to End COVID-19.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday announced that the government will receive over 30 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in October and over 100 crore in the next three months.
While India vaccinated around 1 crore people on Friday and over 65 lakh people on Saturday, Rahul Gandhi recently took a dig at the Centre over the rise in coronavirus cases in the country.
On the 218th day (August 21) of the inoculation drive, a total of 43,92,759 vaccine doses were given -- 27,77,409 beneficiaries received the first dose and 16,15,350 got the second dose -- according to a provisional report.
In a statement issued on Friday, the BMC said 1,60,240 vaccine doses arrived here on Thursday night, comprising 1.5 lakh Covishield and 10,240 Covaxin vaccines.
A team of researchers from the US and Canada projected forward the incidence of Covid-19 cases under a range of vaccine dosing regimes, vaccination rates, and assumptions related to immune responses.
People who were unvaccinated had a three-fold higher prevalence than those who had received both doses of Covid vaccine, at 1.21 per cent compared to 0.4 per cent.
Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government achieved a big milestone of vaccinating over 21 lakh people in a day thus becoming the first state in the country to administer 5 crore Covid shots.
It said that over 3 crore (3,00,58,190) unutilised Covid vaccine doses are still available with the states and Union Territories and private hospitals to be administered.
Bommai explained that he had demanded 1.5 crore doses for the state from the Union government. Mandaviya informed him that the Centre supplied 63 to 64 lakh doses to the state and though it is difficult to allot 1.5 crore doses of Covid vaccine to Karnataka, he would do his best to provide 1 crore doses for the month of August.
Nearly 47 lakh vaccine doses have been administered on Thursday, according to a provisional report at 7 pm, taking the total number of vaccine doses administered to 45.5 crores.
The pandemic could have been under control by now, if vaccines that were "meant to douse the flames of the pandemic" were allocated more equitably, Ghebreyesus said in his keynote speech at the 138th International Olympic Committee Session.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan made the announcement declaring that the states have already been informed in advance about Covid-19 vaccine supplies for July and that the information was shared with them 15 days prior, along with details about day-wise supply.
The report submitted stated that following assessment of 31 serious adverse events after immunisation confirmed that one person aged 68 years died due to Covid-19 jab. As per the report the deceased took his first vaccine shot on March 8
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