The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health Friday also recommended that the government should conduct more research and examine the need of administering vaccine booster doses.
The Ministry of Health issued frequently asked questions about the new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which rose to prominence after WHO flagged it as a variant of concern.
The new Covid strain has rapidly taken hold in Africa’s most-industrialised nation with new cases exceeding 11,000 Thursday, compared with 585 two weeks ago.
Karnataka govt has also issued a set of new SOPs in view of the new variant, with a double dose of vaccination now mandatory for parents of schoolchildren and government staff.
INSACOG says low levels of neutralising antibodies from current vaccines are unlikely to be sufficient to neutralise Omicron, but adds that the 'risk of severe disease is still likely to be reduced'.
Govt says the two cases would not change its current priority of vaccinating the unvaccinated and completing the immunisation process of all adults in the country.
Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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