Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said India is inching closer to administering 36 crore doses of Covid vaccine, a feat achieved in less than 6 months since the launch of vaccination drive.
As the number of PPE kit manufacturers grows, industry players say it’s time to introduce strict checks and audits on the quality of the kits being sent to the market.
Bharat Biotech is conducting immunogenicity trials for Covaxin in children aged between 2 and 18 years. Parents say this way they are at least assured of a vaccine.
A total of 723 deaths were registered in a day, including 306 fatalities in Maharashtra, 76 from Kerala and 72 from Tamil Nadu. The number was the lowest in around 88 days.
In an interview to ThePrint, Dr R.S. Sharma, chief of the Empowered Committee on Covid vaccine, also said passport numbers can now be linked to vaccine certificates for international travel.
NIMHANS professor says the grief and trauma caused during the second Covid wave has been higher than the first one, notes there has been an acute spike in distress calls.
Manindra Agarwal, who is working on the mathematical projection of the COVID-19 trajectory, also said Covid can spread faster during the third wave if any new virulent variant emerges.
In the first wave, only 3.8% Covid patients fell in the below-20 age group. This figure rose to 4.4% in the second wave, said the ICMR-AIIMS-NCDC study.
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