Uttar Pradesh on Sunday registered the highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases as well as fatality count, with the disease claiming 129 more lives, while 30,596 fresh cases pushed its tally to 8,51,620.
Bihar Health Department has cancelled the leaves of all doctors and health workers till April 5 in view of rising Covid-19 cases in the state.
Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad urged health care workers who didn't take the shot of COVID vaccine can take it by February 15. He informed that the state has completed the first round of vaccination of health care workers and who are left for various reasons can take the shots on February 15 which will be the last chance for them to take the shots.
While addressing a press conference in Maharashtra's Pune on January 23, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-In-C), Southern Command (Indian Army), Lt General CP Mohanty spoke on COVID- 19 vaccination drive.
As per the guidelines issued by the health ministry on December 28 last year, initially around 30 crore Indians will be vaccinated, including around three crore healthcare and frontline workers, and approximately 27 crore people of over the age of 50 years.
The vaccine is to be administered in Delhi on four scheduled days of the week -- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. It will not be given on Sunday and two other days of the week when other regular vaccination work will be carried out.
Administration of coronavirus vaccine started in Delhi at 81 centres across the city on Saturday. Each Centre was targeted to administer vaccines to 100 people (health workers).
Dozens of health workers clapped and cheered the "vaccine carrier" staff as the coronavirus vaccines doses reached Mumbai's Cooper hospital on Saturday morning.
Health workers clap and cheer as COVID-19 vaccine reaches the vaccination centre at Cooper hospital in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
For the first phase of vaccination, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation has received 9000 vaccines for health workers, informed Municipal Commissioner Prem Chandra Choudhary on January 13.
Announcing results from its interim analysis of phase 3 trial data from UK and Brazil, AstraZeneca plc on Monday said its covid-19 vaccine was found 90% effective.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said people above sixty years and pregnant women will get coronavirus vaccine on priority along with health workers in the state.
Doctors and health workers at Hindu Rao Hospital continued their strike over non-payment of salaries in Delhi on October 27.
On the occasion of Navratri festival, patients perform 'Garba' with health workers at the Nesco COVID-19 Center in Mumbai's Goregaon on October 19.
Mental health problems such as PTSD, anxiety and depression are common among healthcare staff during and immediately after pandemics, according to researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK.
Health workers were trained in Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch.
Contractual health workers working under Siliguri Municipal Corporation on August 24 held protest demanding immediate release of their delayed salary.
Karnataka Association of Resident Doctors staged black badge protest in Bengaluru city on July 24.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said that at least 99 doctors have succumbed to coronavirus in India while over 1,300 have been infected by COVID-19. Maharashtra is the worst-hit state in terms of the percentage of doctors who died after getting infected to coronavirus.
170 persons found positive included ASHA workers, anganwadi workers, police personnel and health workers. Till Friday evening, Odisha had recorded 5962 coronavirus cases. Out of these 1654 are active cases.
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