Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS: Home Ministry Tells States To Focus On Five-Fold Strategy Of Covid Management
With more than 48.01 lakh vaccine doses administered in past 24 hours, India's cumulative vaccination coverage has exceeded 32.85 crores. India will share CoWIN open-source version with 50 nations.
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Coronavirus HIGHLIGHTS, 29 June: With more than 48.01 lakh vaccine doses administered in past 24 hours, India's cumulative vaccination coverage has exceeded 32.85 crores. While India has ramped up its vaccination drive, the Serum Institute has once again come under fire after the EMA said that the Covishield vaccine 'does not currently have a marketing authorisation' in Europe. The matter would be considered when an application is received for it.
In another development, over 50 countries, including Canada and Mexico have shown interest in having a Co-WIN like system to run their vaccination drive. India has agreed to share the open source software free of cost.
Home Ministry Tells States To Focus On Five-Fold Strategy Of Covid Management
The Centre asked the states on Tuesday to focus on the five-fold strategy for effective COVID-19 management and said the process of relaxing restrictions should be carefully calibrated.
In an advisory to all the state governments and Union Territory administrations on COVID-19 management for the month of July, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla also said the states should regularly monitor the districts with a high number of active coronavirus cases per million (10 lakh) population as it is an important indicator to predict the need for upgrading the health infrastructure and logistics, so that early and prompt action can be taken.
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