Coronavirus Highlights: Tamil Nadu Govt Extends Covid Lockdown Till June 7
Coronavirus LIVE, May 28, Friday: Apollo Hospitals will start administering Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V from the second week of June across 80 locations in India. Germany will start offering coronavirus jabs to children over the age of 12 from June 7, said Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan writes to PM Narendra Modi requesting him to take "measures for a continuous supply of vaccines so that the balance vaccines can be supplied matching with the pace of Kerala's vaccination potential".
Tamil Nadu extends lockdown till 6 am on June 7. Supply of groceries to continue through govt departments, grocery to be sold through vehicles or pushcarts in association with local grocery shops. Delivery of groceries allowed between 7 am to 6 pm.
Kerala government will issue Covid vaccination certificates with passport numbers to those persons who require them to go abroad for jobs or studies, and need travel clearance.
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The timeline for manufacturing, testing and release for a batch of COVAXIN is approximately 120 days, production batches that were initiated during March this year will be ready for supply only during the month of June: Bharat Biotech
To augment vaccine production, GoI to support some PSU companies with grants under 'Mission COVID Suraksha'. One such company is Hyderabad-based Indian Immunological Limited (IIL), which is expected to produce nearly 10-15 million vaccine doses monthly: Ministry of Health
Oxygen concentrators have reached hospitals across India. At a government-run hospital in Himachal Pradesh's Sundernagar, one such unit is being used to provide life-saving treatment to a COVID-19 patient: WHO South-East Asia.
Supreme Court directs district administrations across the country to immediately take care of the basic needs of children orphaned after having lost one or both parents to Covid-19, without waiting for further orders
"50,000 vials of Amphotericin-B arrive at Mumbai Airport. We are putting in a lot of effort to meet its requirement in the country," tweets MoS Chemical and Fertiliser Mansukh Mandaviya.
"As the country is at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have not sought any immediate financial assistance to burden the Central government and would like to manage it through our own resources to tide over the crisis,": Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said.
Meanwhile, Odisha State Medical Corporation informed that the government has extended deadline of the global tender floated for procurement of Covid19 vaccines by till June 4, including the submission of online bid, technical bid opening and price bid.
We had warned the Government of India about Covid-19 repeatedly. Later, PM Modi had expressed India's victory against Covid-19. This is an evolving disease. Lockdowns and wearing of masks is a temporary solution but vaccine is a permanent solution to Covid: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.
Our death rate is a lie, he alleged adding that the opposition is not their (government) enemy.
Uttarakhand has received 15,000 injections of Amphotericin-B used for the treatment of patients with black fungus: State Drug Controller Tajber Singh.
The government of India has provided more than 22.46 crore vaccine doses (22,46,08,010) to States/UTs. Of this, total consumption including wastages is 20,48,04,853 doses as per data available at 8 am today: Union Health Ministry.
More than 1.84 crore COVID vaccine doses (1,84,92,677) are still available with states/UTs to be administered. 3,20,380 vaccine doses are in the pipeline & will be received by the States/UTs within the next 3 days: Union Health Ministry
Delhi High Court issues notice to Centre & others on a petition seeking direction to immediately vaccinate children between ages of 12-17years, in Delhi as well as to prioritize vaccination amongst parents having children up to 17 years of age – especially newborns to 12 years of age.
India reports 1,86,364 new #COVID19 cases, 2,59,459 discharges & 3,660 deaths in last 24 hrs, as per Health Ministry.
Total cases: 2,75,55,457
Total discharges: 2,48,93,410
Death toll: 3,18,895
Active cases: 23,43,152
Total vaccination: 20,57,20,660
Ranking after Maharashtra on the pandemic tracker, Karnataka's Covid tally crossed the 25-lakh mark, with 24,214 new cases in a day, while 476 succumbed to the infection, said the state health bulletin on Thursday.
"With 24,214 new cases registered on Wednesday, the state's Covid tally shot up to 25,23,998, including 4,02,203 active cases, while 20,94,369 patients recovered so far, with 31,459 discharged during the day," said the bulletin.
As epi-centre of the pandemic in the state, Bengaluru reported 5,949 fresh cases on Wednesday, taking its Covid tally to 11,43,878, including 2,06,390 active cases, while recoveries rose to 9,25,066, with 6,643 discharged in the last 24 hours.
The virus has claimed 476 lives, including 273 in Bengaluru during the day, taking the state's death toll to 27,405 and the city's toll to 12,421 since the pandemic broke out in mid-March a year ago.
West Bengal continued to record a declining trend of fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday as it recorded 13,046 new infections, raising the tally to 13,31,249, a health department bulletin said.
The death toll mounted to 14,975 after 148 more fatalities were reported from different parts of the state, it said.
West Bengal now has 1,17,154 active cases, while 11,99,120 patients have recovered from the disease, including 19,121 since Wednesday.
A total of 1,21,79,113 samples have so far been tested for COVID-19, taking into account 57,165 clinical examinations in the last 24 hours, the bulletin said.
Meanwhile, 1,66,573 people were vaccinated in the state during the day, officials said.
West Bengal on Thursday reported five new cases of mucormycosis or black fungus infection, taking the total number of such cases in the state to 18, a health department official said.
Two of the affected persons are from Bihar and Assam and they are being treated in separate hospitals in the state.
The other cases were reported from Purba Bardhaman and Bankura districts, the official said.
There was no report of any death due to black fungus infection in the state during the day, he said, adding that till Thursday, West Bengal has reported three deaths caused by the disease.
Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis in India, the global supply of COVAX has been badly hit, so much so that there are many parts of the world where one shot has been dispensed to health workers or frontline workers and the second shot has not been forthcoming, a top Biden administration official told lawmakers on Thursday.
"COVAX has suffered a big blow given the scale of the pandemic in India," Samantha Power, Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), told members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations for a hearing on the Fiscal 2022 Budget Request for the USAID.
"The Serum Institute of India, which had planned to supply upwards of 140 million doses by the end of June, has had to pull back that supply because of the domestic emergency," Power said responding to a question on the vaccine crisis that has been created across the globe due to the scale of the pandemic in India.
More than 100 cases of multi-organ inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) have been reported in northern India in the last five days as post-Covid reaction, Indian Academy of Pediatric Intensive Care said citing its data.
According to the academy, the sudden spurt in MIS-C cases has been observed typically in post-Covid patients mostly between 4 to 18 years. However, there are rare cases of MIS-C affecting babies six months old.
Meerut | 147 cases of black fungus (mucormycosis) reported so far including 11 new cases recorded yesterday. We've 88 active cases. 187 new COVID 19 cases were also reported yesterday. The situation is improving in terms of Covid crisis in the city: Akhilesh Mohan, CMO
Germany will start offering coronavirus jabs to children over the age of 12 from June 7, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday.
But she stressed that vaccination would not be compulsory and would have no bearing on whether children can attend school or go on holiday.
The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab for 12- to 15-year-olds on Friday. It is already authorised in the EU for those over 16.
India's top Covid-19 adviser Dr VK Paul on Thursday said that recipients must stick to the same dose of vaccine as the first one. However, if in case people have got different jabs, there is no cause for concern. The statement has come after 20 villagers in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar district were administered a dose of Covaxin after the first dose of Covishield, triggering fear of side effects among people.
“Two different doses are safe. We are thinking to mix and match (vaccine doses) on a trial basis," the doctor added. The incident took place in Siddharthnagar district’s Badhni Primary Health Care Centre where around 20 people from Audahi Kalan were given Covishiled as their first dose of vaccine but on May 14 they were administered a second dose and were inoculated with Covaxin by the health workers. However, all the people who got a ‘cocktail’ of vaccines are doing fine at the moment
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Coronavirus LIVE, May 28, Friday: India's top Covid-19 adviser Dr VK Paul on Thursday said that recipients must stick to the same dose of vaccine as the first one. However, if in case people have got different jabs, there is no cause for concern. The statement has come after 20 villagers in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar district were administered a dose of Covaxin after the first dose of Covishield, triggering fear of side-effects among people.
“Two different doses are safe. We are thinking to mix and match (vaccine doses) on a trial basis," the doctor added. The incident took place in Siddharthnagar district’s Badhni Primary Health Care Centre where around 20 people from Audahi Kalan were given Covishiled as their first dose of vaccine but on May 14 they were administered a second dose and were inoculated with Covaxin by the health workers. However, all the people who got a ‘cocktail’ of vaccines are doing fine at the moment.
Germany will start offering coronavirus jabs to children over the age of 12 from June 7, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday. But she stressed that vaccination would not be compulsory and would have no bearing on whether children can attend school or go on holiday.
The European Medicines Agency is expected to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab for 12- to 15-year-olds on Friday. It is already authorised in the EU for those over 16.
"Children and young people aged 12 and over will have the chance to book a vaccine appointment from June 7," Merkel said after talks with Germany's regional leaders.
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