Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, advisers to the US government said Thursday. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention quickly adopted the panel’s recommendation, opening a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids — just like what is already recommended for everybody 12 and older. The … Read more
The discharge of 3,022 people increased the recovery count to 11,90,271, leaving the state with 14,211 active cases. Gujarat on Sunday reported 1,274 new COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths, raising its tally to 12,15,290 and toll to 10,808, a state health department official said. The discharge of 3,022 people during this period increased the recovery … Read more
“Accomplishing more new feats! Congratulations India. Aided by public participation & dedicated efforts of our health workers, over 60 per cent of the eligible population fully vaccinated now,” he said in a tweet. Over 60 per cent of the eligible population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday. “Accomplishing … Read more
During the meeting which lasted for about two hours, the PM spoke about the need to be proactive in light of the new variant and urged people to be more cautious and take proper precautions like masking up and maintaining social distance, the PMO said. Amid mounting global concerns over the new coronavirus strain ‘Omicron’, … Read more
SII estimates that about 65% of the children in the world receive at least one vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute. Serum Institute of India’s Covid-19 vaccine Covishield on Tuesday crossed the 100-crore vaccination mark. The country has administered 113.55 crore Covid-19 vaccines till date, and of these, 100.31 crore were Covishield. Two billion doses of … Read more
In August, it was Uttar Pradesh where the maximum number of coronavirus vaccine doses were administered. Coronavirus vaccination in India: The country witnessed the administration of a whopping 1.25 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses on August 31, i.e. Tuesday, which is the highest single-day tally in the country for this vaccination drive that began mid-January. This … Read more
The state governments have been complaining of vaccine shortages and have been shutting down vaccination centres for want of vaccines. Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday said state governments and private hospitals would receive a total of 13.50 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses in July. The total June supplies were 11.46 doses. The government started … Read more
Additionally, three PSUs — Haffkine Biopharmaceutical Corporation, Mumbai, Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation, Bulandshahr and Indian Immunologicals, Hyderabad — will together aim to produce up to four crore doses of COVAXIN by December. The country is back to administering 20 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines per day and this will increase further. By July, there … Read more
However, such a combination of Serum Institute of India’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin was not being considered, Paul said at a press briefing. A mix and match of Covid-19 vaccine doses is unlikely to happen in the country anytime soon, VK Paul, member-health, Niti Aayog, indicated on Saturday. Preliminary results from a trial in … Read more