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Confident to vaccinate whole population by December 2021: ICMR DG Bhargava
Confident to vaccinate whole population by December 2021: ICMR DG Bhargava
ANI / Updated: Jun 1, 2021, 19:25 IST
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New Delhi: Underlining that there is no shortage of COVID-19 vaccine in the country, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General Dr Balram
Bhargava on Tuesday expressed confidence that India s entire population will be vaccinated by December 2021.
Briefing the press on
Covid and vaccination-related updates in the country, Bhargava stressed that the Covid positivity rate should be below 5 per cent for a week and over 70 per cent vulnerable population should be vaccinated in order to lift restrictions in districts.
India News: NEW DELHI: The ICMR has invited independent researchers from across India to contribute to the scientific knowledge related to Covid-19 by submitting .
The experts said surgeons should consider performing a non-urgent surgery on a Covid-recovered patient only after six weeks of recovery to ensure faster healing and convalescence post-surgery.
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NEW DELHI: Monoclonal antibodies, recently introduced in India as an antibody therapy to treat Covid-positive patients, are being used to minimise mutation formation and should always be used in a pair, said Dr Nirmal K Ganguly, former Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Monday. When a single one is used, it causes a lot of mutation in the virus, which is why a cocktail is used to minimise mutation formation and thus always used in pairs, Dr Ganguly told ANI, adding that it prevents the spike protein from attaching to s2 receptor and beta integrin receptor.