Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: Fortis Research Institute In Gurugram Starts Sputnik-V Trial Run For Public
Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: In Tamil Nadu, a total of nine Delta Plus variant cases have been reported, said the State Health Minister Ma Subramanian. The third wave of Covid 19 won't be as severe as the second wave reveals ICMR study.
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Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS, Sunday, June 27: A new coronavirus vaccine developed by Indian pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadila will be available soon for those between 12-18 years of age, the central government...More
Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurugram has started trial run of Russian jab SputnikV for the general public.
Haryana on Sunday reported 17 more Covid-related deaths, which took the cumulative toll to 9,385, while 115 fresh cases pushed the tally to 7,68,378 in the state, according to the health department's daily bulletin. The latest deaths include two each from Gurgaon and Hisar districts, it said.
Of the fresh cases, Palwal reported 20 cases while 16 cases were from Gurgaon, the bulletin said. The active cases in the state stand at 1,685. The total recoveries so far are 7,57,308, and the recovery rate is 98.56 per cent, it said. The cumulative positivity rate is 7.74 per cent, the bulletin said.
Police in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district booked 100 people on Sunday for violation of COVID-19 guidelines and imposed fines worth around Rs 50,000 on them.
The violators included shopkeepers who were fined for not wearing face masks or not maintaining social distancing on their premises, a police spokesperson said.
He added that police personnel distributed face masks among the public all day to infuse a sense of responsibility to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
While 80 people were fined for not wearing masks, 13 were penalised for not maintaining social distance and seven for spitting in public places, the spokesman said.
In nearby Kathua district, 43 people were penalised for not following Covid-appropriate behaviour and fines worth Rs 19,500 imposed on Sunday, a police official said.
Fulfilling its commitment, Serum Institute of India has produced over 10 crore doses of its COVID-19 vaccine Covishield in June so far as India ramps up the pace of its vaccination drive in the face of a possible third wave of the viral infection.
India's COVID-19 inoculation drive has picked up pace under the new phase of universalisation of COVID-19 vaccination that commenced on June 21 with around 69 lakh vaccine doses being administered on an average daily in the last six days.
The immunisation data published at 7 am on Sunday showed that India administered 64.25 lakh vaccine doses in a day, taking the cumulative number of jabs given so far under the nationwide inoculation drive to 32.17 crore.
According to information provided to the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India, it has sent 45 batches of Covishield, amounting to 10.80 crore doses, to the Central Drugs Laboratory, Kasauli for release in June so far.
The firm's Director at Government and Regulatory Affairs, Prakash Kumar Singh, had in May communicated to Union Home Minister Amit Shah that Covishield production would be ramped up to 10 crore doses in June.
"We are committed to enhancing the production capacity of our Covishield vaccine and have been working round-the-clock in spite of various challenges being faced by us because of COVID-19 pandemic.
"We are pleased to inform that in the month of June we will be able to manufacture and supply nine to 10 crore doses of our Covishield vaccine to our country as compared to our present production capacity of 6.5 crore doses in May," Singh had said in a communication to Shah.
Delhi reports 89 new Covid-19 cases, 285 recoveries and 4 deaths in the last 24 hours.
- Active cases: 1,568
- Total recoveries: 14,07,401
- Death toll: 24,965
- Positivity rate: 0.12%
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of spreading "misconceptions, confusion and lies" about COVID-19 vaccines, which was leading to many people "putting their lives in danger" by refusing to take the doses.
He was reacting to a tweet by Gandhi in which the latter had taken a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio programme Mann Ki Baat.
"Bas Har Deshwasi Tak Vaccine Pahucha Do, Fir Chahe Mann Ki Baat Bhi Suna Do!" (Just deliver the vaccine to every citizen, and then put forth your Mann ki Baat if you want)," Gandhi had tweeted.
Hitting back, the MP CM said the PM was providing free vaccines to all while Gandhi was "only spreading confusion".
"Shame on you Rahul Baba, it is prime minister Narendra Modi who is getting people vaccinated and not you. The prime minister is providing free vaccines to all the citizens of the country and you are only spreading confusion! You spread confusion, lied due to which many people refused to get vaccines," Chouhan said on Twitter.
Jharkhand recorded three more COVID-19 deaths and 98 new cases in the last 24 hours, a health department bulletin said on Sunday.
The deaths which were reported from East Singhbhum, Bokaro and Khunti district pushed the COVID-19 death toll to 5,110.
The 98 new COVID-19 cases took the tally to 3,45,259.
Ranchi district reported 18 new cases followed by Simdega (12) and Latehar (9), the bulletin said.
Jharkhand now has 1,113 active COVID-19 cases while 3,39,036 patients have recovered from the infection, including 166 in the last 24 hours, it said.
The mortality rate in the state was recorded at 1.48 per cent, higher than the national average of 1.30 per cent.
The COVID-19 recovery rate in the state has improved to 98.19 per cent, better than the national average of 96.70 per cent.
Altogether, 97,84,355 samples have been tested for COVID-19 in Jharkhand so far, including 52,645 since Saturday, it added.
Haryana government issues order to extend lockdown till July 5 with some relaxations in the state
Covid-19 vaccination in Telangana continues at brisk pace as the authorities administered 2.45 lakh doses on Saturday, officials said.
A total of 2,45,098 doses were administered across the state, taking the cumulative doses administered to 1,03,24,320.
According to director of public health Dr G. Srinivasa Rao, 2,17,789 people received the first dose while 27,309 were given the second dose.
The cumulative numbers for first and second dose reached 88,47,880 and 14,76,440 respectively.
For a third consecutive day, the state administered over two lakh doses. The state had crossed the one crore doses mark on June 25.
Vaccination was carried out at 1,114 centres including 57 private centres across the state on Saturday.
Puducherry added 231 fresh COVID-19 cases on Sunday, taking the tally to 1,16,645, while three more fatalities pushed the toll to 1,744.
Recoveries outnumbered fresh cases with 331 people being discharged from hospitals, taking the active cases to 2,672.
In all, 1,12,229 people have recovered from the disease so far.
Puducherry accounted for two deaths, both of whom were 70 year-old women and another person in Karaikal, Health and Family Welfare Services Director S Mohan Kumar said in a release.
The Union Territory reported the maximum number of 170 cases, followed by Karaikal 31, Mahe 22 and Yanam 8, he said
A total of 8,148 samples were tested in the last 24 hours ending at 10 am, taking the cumulative number of speciemens examined so far to 12,84,089.
The positivity rate stood at 2.84 per cent.
The fatality and recovery rates were 1.50 per cent and 96.21 per cent respectively.
Kumar said 37,188 health care workers and 22,881 front line workers were vaccinated so far.
The temples of Tamil Nadu are getting ready for opening from Monday following the relaxation in lockdown.
The temples in districts of Chennai, Kancheepuram & Tiruvallur districts have begun cleaning, setting up barricades to restrict the entry of devotees & sanitizing temples.
COVID19 | India reports 50,040 fresh cases, 57,944 recoveries, and 1,258 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union Health Ministry.
Total cases: 3,02,33,183
Total recoveries: 2,92,51,029
Death toll: 3,95,751
Active cases: 5,86,403
135 crore vaccines to be available in India till December 2021.
The national capital on Saturday reported 85 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest since April 19 last year, with a positivity rate of 0.12 per cent, while nine people fell prey to the virus in the last 24 hours.
This is the second time in the last one week that Delhi's single-day tally fell below the 100-mark after June 21, when the national capital had reported 89 cases.
With nine more deaths getting reported in the last 24 hours, Delhi's overall Covid death toll has gone up to 24,961.
During the same time period, 158 people recovered from the disease, taking the national capital's total number of recoveries to 14,07,116 till date.
Delhi presently has 1,598 active cases, with the number of patients under home isolation dropping below the 500-mark.
A total of 72,920 Covid samples were tested in the last 24 hours, including 50,839 through RT-PCR and 20, 081 through the Rapid Antigen method.
The Covid-19 situation continued to be grim in Kerala on Saturday, with 12,118 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, health officials said.
The test positivity rate (TPR) in the state continued to hover over 10 per cent, the officials added.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said in a statement that the TPR for the day was 10.66 after 12,118 tested positive in the last 24 hours, while the active cases in the state climbed to 1,01,102.
Meanwhile, 118 more patients have succumbed to Covid, pushing the toll to 12,817.
Across the state there were 3,96,863 people under observation at various places which includes 26,298 at hospitals.
Days after a fake vaccination racket was busted in Kolkata, the West Bengal health department on Saturday issued a detailed guideline to control and monitor Covid vaccination camps (CVCs) organised by private entities across the state.
The fake vaccination racket came to light after actor-turned-Trinamool Congress MP Chakraborty lodged a complaint suspecting that a camp in Kasba where she took the vaccine shot was fake. She found the camp suspicious when she received no official confirmation after taking the vaccine on Wednesday.
Debanjan Deb, the man who conducted the dubious vaccine camps impersonating as a Joint Commissioner of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, has been arrested.
The seven-page guidelines issued by the health department specifically mentioned that all camps other than the ones directly organised by the state government will need to take prior permission of the state health department and fix a nodal officer so that the health department can directly communicate with him/her regarding the vaccination camp.
The guidelines also asked all private CVCs to maintain a dynamic inventory of vaccines, disclosing the source of their supplies, cold chain mechanisms, day-to-day consumption of vaccine doses etc., besides submitting end of the day reports to the health department.
The nodal officer must submit a weekly report on safety and tolerability of the vaccine doses.
The private vaccination camps must extend support and cooperation to the health department with respect to facilitating a prescheduled monitoring visit of the CVC by the representatives of the health department.
In case of poor compliance or gross departure from the prescribed norms, the health department shall revoke the permission to run the CVC, the guidelines said.
A private CVC must submit a list of all the people who completed vaccination, i.e., received both the doses, every Sunday.
Preparation to tackle the anticipated third wave of coronavirus has gained momentum in Jharkhand. Chief Minister Hemant Soren is personally monitoring every development and issuing the directive to the concerned officials.
According to the information, 20 beds Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) are being established in every district across the state. This time the state government is focusing on the special facilities for the children. The Chief Minister has directed the officials to establish child-friendly ICU beds in the government hospitals at the earliest.
The Chief Minister has also directed the officials to equip child wards with modern medical equipment so that patients in rural areas to be able to access the best possible and free of cost treatment in their locality.
Apart from general child wards, dedicated child wards are also being developed. These wards are equipped with infant ventilators, paediatric ventilators, Bubble CPAP, Radiant warmers, Oxygen supply facility and other necessary facilities.
Interestingly, the PICU wards are being painted with different kinds of child-friendly paintings.
The third wave of Covid-19 could occur but it may not be as severe as the second wave, an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study revealed.
The study was published in the peer-reviewed Indian Journal of Medical Research. “This study demonstrates plausible mechanisms by which a substantial third wave could occur, while also illustrating that it is unlikely for any such resurgence to be as large as the second wave,” the study said. However, the researchers also noted that the projections were subject to uncertainties and scaling up vaccinations is the only way to ‘mitigate against any eventuality’.