Page 10 - India Vaccination

CM Yediyurappa urges PM to provide 15 mn doses of Covid vaccine every month

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide at least 1.5 crore doses of Covid vaccine to the state every month.

Status of vaccine procurement by pvt vaccination centres worrying: Centre

Union Health Ministry on Wednesday reviewed the status and the progress of vaccine procurement by private COVID vaccination centres.

Congress alleges shortage of vaccines, says third wave may hit 'very badly'

The Congress on Wednesday attacked the Centre over the "shortage" of COVID-19 vaccines and said the third wave of the pandemic may hit the country very badly

Covid vaccine shortage in Delhi, 500 vaccination centres closed: Minister

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the Aam Aadmi Party government has the capacity to vaccinate all the eligible population but enough vaccines are not being made available to them.

Taking measures to promptly vaccinate people in tea garden areas: Assam CM

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that his government is making efforts to urgently vaccinate people in the tea garden areas of the state

Over 76% of eligible population vaccinated in Tripura, 25% with both doses

Over 76 per cent of the eligible population of Tripura have been inoculated against Covid-19 and around 25 per cent got both doses of the vaccine, an official said on Tuesday. The positivity rate of coronavirus in the state currently is 4.3 per cent and it is likely to decline after two weeks. Of the 26.24 lakh people who are eligible for inoculation, over 20 lakh (76.22 per cent) have received the vaccine while 6.47 lakh (24.64 per cent) have taken both doses, National Health Mission (NHM) director in Tripura, Dr Siddhartha Shiv Jaiswal, said. Tripura has a population of 40.19 lakh in March. "As many as 16.3 lakh people fall in the 18-44 age group (62.1 per cent) and 9.94 lakh are in the category of 45+ (37.9 per cent)," Jaiswal said. The state NHM director said that 57.98 per cent of all frontline workers have already received both the vaccine doses. State Surveillance Officer (SSO) for COVID 19, Deep Debbarma, said that the positivity rate of Covid-19 is likely

India administers 4.39 million Covid-19 vaccine doses in last 24 hrs

After 4,399,298 vaccine doses were administered in the last 24 hours, India's cumulative vaccination coverage increased to 344.6 million, according to the Union Health Ministry on Saturday

India in talks with Johnson & Johnson for single-dose Covid-19 vaccine

New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): NITI Aayog member (Health) Dr VK Paul on Friday confirmed that India is in talks with US pharma giant Johnson & Johnson for their single-dose COVID-19 vaccine named Janssen.Speaking exclusively to ANI, Dr Paul said, "We are in talks with Johnson & Johnson regarding their single-dose vaccine."He said that "as per the plan, this vaccine will also be produced in Hyderabad's Bio E."Johnson & Johnson said late on Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine showed strong promise against the Delta variant and other emerging strains and also provided durable protection against the infection more broadly. The healthcare company in a statement said that its vaccine was 85 per cent effective and could also help prevent hospitalisation and death.Presently, in India Delta plus has been reported in 12 states. This variant is a sub-lineage of delta variant and has been declared as 'Variant of Concern' by the government.According to Dr Paul, India reported 56

Jamui becomes first panchayat in MP to achieve 100% Covid vaccination

Jamui in Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh has become the first panchayat in the state to achieve the target of 100 per cent vaccination against Covid-19.

Vaccination lowest in Bengal, fake inoculation going on: J P Nadda

BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that Covid-19 vaccination is lowest in the state and fake inoculation camps are being organised here. He also claimed that "organised post-poll violence" is taking place in the state and though it has a woman chief minister, women are facing atrocities. Nadda alleged that Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, is "changing her version" every other day on the vaccination programme, and the state government has failed in the process, though the Centre is providing free vaccines to states. "If you see the data, the vaccination is lowest in West Bengal. This is the only state where you would see fake vaccination camps are being run. We have never heard about fake vaccination. Even TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty got a jab of the fake vaccine," he said. Several persons, including the mastermind, were recently arrested for organising dubious camps in Kolkata where people were .

Covid-19 vaccine doses given in India cross 331 million: Health ministry

In the eight days following the launch of the new vaccine policy on June 21, India has administered 46 million doses

Apollo hospitals to hold nationwide Covid vaccination drive on Wednesday

A leading hospital group on Tuesday announced that it will conduct a pan-India Covid vaccination drive on June 30 spanning 50 cities, to boost the national inoculation exercise.

Centre adds over 32,000 cold chain equipment since March last year

There are 37 state vaccine stores, 114 regional vaccine stores, 723 district vaccine stores and 28,268 sub-district vaccine stores

51% of Covid-19 vaccinations in May-June have been in rural centres

In terms of total Covid vaccinations by states, Uttar Pradesh, Maharastra, Rajasthan, West Bengal have fared strongly

Covid-19 pandemic: India has 6-8 months to vaccinate everyone, says Arora

The government had said recently that the Delta variant was one of the major reasons for the surge in cases during the second wave

Covid vaccine: Sputnik V may not be available in India for another 2 weeks

Around 3 million units of the first dose of the vaccine have landed in India, while the consignment of the second dose is expected by the end of this month.

India has administered over 300 million Covid-19 vaccine doses so far

Daily number of Covid cases increase in Maharashtra and Kerala

Herd immunity is both mystical and mythical: NTAGI chairman N K Arora

Herd immunity works when immunised and unimmunised individuals are mixed in a true random process and around 80 per cent are immunised, said Arora

Day 2 of new Covid-19 vaccine policy: Jab count drops after day of high

Day two report card A look at the top states that gave the highest number of doses on Day One of the new vaccine policy, but numbers slipped drastically for most of them

Record 8.5 million vaccine doses given on day 1 of revised guidelines

Over 8.5 million vaccine doses, the highest in a single day, were administered across the country as the revised guidelines for vaccination came into effect, the Union Health Ministry said