These “should be our policy goals,” Sitharaman said at the in-person meeting of the 4th G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors under the Italian presidency.
The FDA meetings come as U.S. vaccinations have climbed back above 1 million per day on average.
The findings, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday, also show that those infected with the virus prior to vaccination exhibit a more robust immune response to all variants than those who were uninfected and fully vaccinated.
The minister said Assam is among states that have the least VAT (value-added tax) on petrol.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, sharing the achievement on Twitter, said that India is close to administering 100 crore COVID-19 vaccines.
Addressing a press briefing, Dr. Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the organization again calls on “all countries to ensure the recognition of vaccines proven to be efficacious and safe and certainly that meet WHO Emergency Use Listing criteria”.
We can use drones in delivering important life-saving medicines, collecting blood samples, said Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
In order to fight misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccines, YouTube has announced that it is expanding medical misinformation policies on the platform.
Modi also announced that India has developed the first DNA vaccine, which can be given to people older than 12 years.
As winter approaches, bringing the threat of a new COVID surge, Britain’s light touch is setting it apart from more cautious nations.
As of mid-September, fewer than 4% of Africans have been fully immunized and most of the 5.7 billion vaccine doses administered around the world have been given in just 10 rich countries.
The United States and its international partners are working quickly to scale up vaccine manufacturing in other countries around the world so they can manufacture as well, Biden said in his virtual address to the Global Summit to End COVID-19.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday announced that the government will receive over 30 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in October and over 100 crore in the next three months.
On climate change, Tirumurti said India is the only G-20 country which is on course to meet the Paris Targets.
India took 85 days to touch the 10-crore vaccination mark, 45 more days to cross the 20-crore mark and 29 more days to reach the 30-crore mark, according to the health ministry.
Amid talks of a third shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, the government on Thursday said that booster doses were not the "central theme" in scientific and public healthcare discussions at the moment.
Uttar Pradesh took almost 100 days to administer the first one crore vaccine doses. It then took another 45 days to cross the 2-crore mark and 59 more days to vaccinate 5 crore people.
Around 50,25,159 vaccine doses have been administered till 8 pm on Sunday, according to data from the CoWIN portal.
The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of final reports for the day by late night.
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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