22 new COVID-19 cases in Puducherry, active count at 305 ANI | Updated: Jan 11, 2021 15:09 IST
Puducherry [India], January 11 (ANI): Puducherry reported 22 new COVID-19 cases and 34 recoveries on Monday.
According to the Puducherry Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, the count of people infected with the virus in the Union Territory stands at 38,478, while the number of active cases currently stands at 305.
With new recoveries registered in the last 24 hours, 37,535 people have been discharged after being recovered from COVID-19 here.
The death toll remained at 638 on Monday as no fresh fatality was reported.
The COVID-19 recovery rate of the Union territory stands at 97.55 per cent whereas the fatality rate is at 1.66 per cent.
Four passengers from UK test positive for COVID-19 in Delhi ANI | Updated: Jan 11, 2021 14:27 IST
New Delhi [India], January 11 (ANI): As many as four passengers, who arrived here from the United Kingdom on an Air India flight, have tested positive for COVID-19, an official said on Monday.
Dr Gauri Agarwal, founder-director, Genestrings Genetic Laboratory, said that there were total 186 passengers including three infants on the flight. All COVID-19 testing completed within three hours, Agarwal said.
Meanwhile, India s tally of people infected with the new strain of COVID-19 that was detected in the United Kingdom stands at 96.
After the new strain of COVID-19 detected in the UK, the government had imposed a ban on flights coming to India from the UK with effect from December 22, 2020 till January 7, 2021.
Price of Covishield fixed at Rs 200 per dose, SII to begin shipping Covid-19 vaccine
Price of Covishield fixed at Rs 200 per dose, SII to begin shipping Covid-19 vaccine
Pune-based Serum Institute of India also confirmed that it has received a purchase order from the Government of India for 1.1 crore doses of its coronavirus vaccine Covishield .
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SII facility in Pune s Pimpri Chinchwad where Covishield is being manufactured (Photo Credits: PTI)
Covishield, the coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca will be sold at Rs 200 per dose. Sources within the Serum Institute of India (SII), Oxford University and AstraZeneca s partner in India told India Today that the price of each dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was always fixed .
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India partially lifts ban on India-UK flights in calibrated manner after flights were suspended on December 23 with the new strain of the coronavirus being detected in 82 UK-returned individuals 02 Min Read
While the resumption of flights between India and United Kingdom may be good news to passengers in urgent need of travel, the government has said the current lifting of ban is valid till January 30 and subject to further orders.
Following the news that a more infectious strain of the COVID-19 virus has surfaced in the UK, India had suspended flights between the two countries on December 23, 2020. Several travellers who had arrived in India during that time had tested positive for the new variant (called B.1.1.7. 82) of SARS-CoV-2. The Indian government cancelled flights to check the spread of this new strain of highly infectio
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Delhi Police gets guide to probe, handle adverse events following vaccination
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Delhi Police gets guide to probe, handle adverse events following vaccination
The Union Ministry of Health and Welfare (Immunisation Division) has issued a Standard Operating Procedure for the Ministry of Home Affairs in case of Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI).
Delhi Police has instructed all DCPs to educate the SHOs about the norms. “We held a meeting with SHOs and instructed them to read the guidelines and pass it on to other officers who will be the first to respond to any adverse situation during immunisation,” said the officer.