Centre's vaccine policy hollow, without substance: Mamata writes to PM Modi
India | Apr 20, 2021, 05:15 PM ISTThe central government has announced that everyone above 18 years of age will be eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 from May 1
The central government has announced that everyone above 18 years of age will be eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 from May 1
Death toll increased to 60,824 with 351 new fatalities. As many as 52,412 patients were discharged from hospitals, taking the number of recovered patients to 31,59,240.
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"Remdesivir is not a life-saving drug in COVID-19. It is to be administered only in the hospital settings," the Health Ministry said in a tweet.
"LoP in Maharashtra Legislative Council and MLC Prasad Lad few days ago went to Daman to meet the officials of Bruck Pharma, requesting them to sell their exportable stock into Maharashtra," Fadnavis said.
Essential services will be allowed during restrictions that will come into effect at 8:00 pm on Saturday night and will remain in place till Monday 7:00 am.
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.
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.
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