Speaking at the White House, Biden sharply criticized the tens of millions of Americans who are not yet vaccinated, despite months of availability and incentives.
India reported 34,973 new COVID-19 cases and 260 fatalities in the last 24 hours. The new fatalities pushed the COVID death toll to 4,42,009 in the country. 37,681 got recovered in the same duration. India has 3,90,646 active cases of COVID. Kerala reported 26,200 new COVID cases and 114 deaths in past 24 hours. Under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive, 72,37,84,586 vaccine doses have been administered.
President Joe Biden announced sweeping new orders Thursday that will require employers with more than 100 workers to mandate immunizations or offer weekly testing.
The move makes Los Angeles by far the largest of a very small number of districts with a vaccine requirement. Nearby Culver City imposed a similar policy last month for its 7,000 students.
The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of final reports for the day by late night.
Speaking at a briefing of the Union health ministry, ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said the vaccine tracker has been developed by synergizing data from the COWIN portal, National COVID-19 testing database, and COVID-19 India portal.
Addressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said India is still going through the second wave of COVID-19 and it is not over yet.
The ministry said over 5.58 cr balance and unutilised COVID vaccine doses are still available with states, UTs to be administered.
The total active cases of COVID in India rose to 3,93,614, the ministry data showed.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said he was “appalled” after hearing comments Tuesday from a top association of pharmaceutical manufacturers that vaccine supplies are high enough to allow for both booster shots for people in well-supplied countries and first jabs in poorer countries that face shortages. He said that's already been the case.
The total active cases of COVID in India rose to 3,91,256, the ministry data showed.
India reported 37,875 new COVID-19 cases and 369 fatalities in the last 24 hours. The new fatalities pushed the COVID death toll in the country to 4,41,411. 39,114 got recovered in the same duration. India has 3,91,256 active cases of COVID as of today.
The development came following the announcement that Panacea Biotec supplied the first shipment of the second component of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine manufactured by it for sale in India.
Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly pathogenic and re-emerging virus that causes sporadic but severe infections in humans.
It took 19 more days to go past the 60-crore mark and took only 13 days to reach 70 crore from 60 crore, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Twitter.
A total of 1,05,76,911 doses were administered on Monday, officials said, adding that the figure is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for the day by late night.
As of Monday morning, 1,61,450 doses of Covaxin and 12,46,420 doses of Covishield are left in stock. The bulletin noted that 5,43,550 doses of Covishield were added to the stock on Sunday.
Currently, Pfizer's mRNA Covid vaccine is available in two packages: one with 450 doses and another with 1,170. But the vaccine's cold storage requirement limits where and for how long they can be kept, making it challenging for smaller facilities to store high quantities of the vaccine without wasting doses.
Justice P B Suresh Kumar said that if the central and state governments can permit persons traveling abroad to choose between early and better protection from COVID-19, there is no reason why the same privilege cannot be extended to those here who want early protection in connection with their employment or education.
Addressing the people of Himachal Pradesh virtually on achieving the target of administering the first dose of Covid vaccine to all eligible people, Modi said as many as 70 crore vaccines have been administered so far in the country.
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