COVID: India's vaccination coverage exceeds 189.17 crore, says health ministry
India | May 01, 2022, 02:30 PM ISTSimilarly, COVID precaution dose administration for the age group 18-59 yrs also started from April 10, 2022, onwards, it stated.
Similarly, COVID precaution dose administration for the age group 18-59 yrs also started from April 10, 2022, onwards, it stated.
Covovax has already been recommended by the Drugs Controller General of India for children above 12 years of age, but its administration has not been allowed yet.
China has always been notorious about revealing the actual data of new Covid cases, deaths to the world. Most of the people in China have been given the 'Made in China' vaccine like Sinopharm but this hasn't been that effective compared to other vaccines.
In India, precautionary dose of COVID-19 vaccines will be available to all aged above 18 years at private vaccination centers from April 10. Data suggest that a booster dose provides good short-term vaccine effectiveness and has a safety profile similar to the second dose of the vaccine.
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Manish Sisodia, who also holds Finance portfolio, was presenting the status report of the Delhi gov's Outcome Budget for the year 2021-21 in the House.
The vaccination campaign will also be extended to people having an immunocompromised system who were not eligible for the vaccine until now, Le Parisien reported.
Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya congratulated the nation on achieving this historic landmark milestone of 180 crore landmark.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, submitted before a bench headed by Justice MR Shah that an outer-limit may be fixed for submitting Covid death-related claims, otherwise the process will become endless.
Additionally, over 97 pc of India's adult population have also received their first dose of vaccine against COVID.
This has been achieved through 2,02,74,848 sessions, said the ministry. According to them, 23,598 patients have recovered in last 24 hours and cumulative tally of recovered patients is now at 4,22,70,482.
"With the administration of over 46.82 lakh (46,82,662) vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 172.29 Cr (1,72,29,47,688) as per provisional reports till 7 am today," the ministry said in a press release.
With proactive efforts of States/UTs, along with Govt of India, Centre has administered over 66.68 cr doses of COVID vaccine which is amongst the highest in the world.
The nationwide COVID vaccination started on January 16, 2021.The new phase of universalization of COVID vaccination commenced from June 21, 2021.
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Sources in the health dept stated that till date, the state govt has vaccinated 76 pc of the targeted population against COVID.
The research, published in the journal Nature, may help design vaccines and antibody treatments that will be effective against not only Omicron but other variants that may emerge in the future.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a televised address to the nation on Saturday night, announced that vaccination against COVID-19 for children between 15-18 years will start from January 3.
The healthcare and frontline workers and citizens above 60 years of age with comorbidities would be administered the third dose of the same vaccine they had been given before.
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