As per health ministry, with the administration of 41,54,476 vaccine doses in last 24 hours, India's COVID vaccination coverage reached 1,73,86,81,675 doses, as per provisional reports on Feb 16.
The worrisome trend in children too young to be vaccinated underscores need for older kids and adults to get their shots to help protect those around them, said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for day by late night, the ministry said.
The vaccination drive has been ramped up through availability of more vaccines, advance visibility of vaccine availability to states and UTs for enabling better planning by them, and streamlining the vaccine supply chain, the ministry said.
West Bengal managed to extract around 16 lakh extra doses of vaccine in the last three months from its stipulated quota only by saving the extra dose given in a vial to compensate for wastage.
All the vaccines used in US- including the J&J vaccine- still are doing their job of preventing hospitalizations and deaths from COVID.
Over 2.25 cr balance and unutilised COVID vaccine doses are still available with the states, UTs and private hospitals to be administered, the ministry said.
The volunteers, known as 'Swasthya Sewaks', will be given basic training in Covid management from doctors.
Earlier on Monday, the company had said that it remained committed to bringing its single-dose COVID vaccine to India and looks forward to ongoing discussions with the Indian govt.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni directed the Centre to approve Mumbai civic body's plan of action, "with or without modifications, within 7-days" from now.
"The corona vaccine will be given on a priority basis to teachers and non-teaching staff of all government, aided and unaided private schools in the state for the early re-opening of schools keeping the future of children in mind," Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said
The ministry said 15,75,140 more doses are in the process of being supplied.
More than 1.44 crore balance and unutilised COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states, UTs and private hospitals to be administered.
The vaccination drive in many districts of Tamil Nadu is likely to be affected due to the shortage of vaccines.
Earlier this month, the committee had highlighted the possibility that the second dose of mRNA vaccines may be associated with a small risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in young men.
Under the national COVID-19 vaccination programme Centre has devised a strategy to inoculate the elderly and the differently abled.
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been.
Experts of CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met on Wednesday to review risks of these rare heart problems in the vaccinated younger population, reports Xinhua news agency.
Universities in Hyderabad have stepped up the vaccination of students, non-teaching staff and faculty, ahead of reopening on July 1.
A total of 53,72,219 people have got both the doses till now, state health dept said.
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