The Hindu. Mr. VijayRaghavan referenced data from the NITI Ayog and the Health Ministry for the presentation.
So far 1.2 million beneficiaries have been vaccinated with either Covishield or Covaxin in 24,397 sessions or about half of what should have been ideally targeted since the vaccination drive began last Saturday.
There have been concerns raised by States since the drive began, with some entirely suspending the use of the software for a few days but pressing ahead with the inoculation. In other instances, beneficiaries didn t receive messages on the date and time of their inoculation and vaccine hesitancy for reasons not entirely explained by the government has meant that many haven t turned up for their shots in spite of registering for it.
Tuesday, 19 January, 2021, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
Ashwani Maindola, New Delhi
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has written to the state Food Safety Commissioners for a training and awareness programme about the FSS Act and âGood Agricultural Practicesâ for the primary producers to address the problem of contaminants and residues of various pesticides post-harvesting.
The state food authorities were asked to include programmes related to agriculture, animal husbandry, pesticide usage and so on.
âIt is requested to conduct training and awareness programme about the Act and promotion of âGood Agricultural Practices (GAPs), Good Animal Husbandry Practices (GAHP), Good Animal Feeding Practices (GAFP) etc., apart from integrated pest management, use of pesticides only in the prescribed manner and for approved crops, observance of waiting period prior to harvesting by the cultivators etc. among farmers,â reads the l
Synopsis
The meeting of the panel is being held days before the start of the countrywide COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called the world s largest inoculation programme.
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New Delhi: The Union health secretary and the ICMR DG deposed before a parliamentary panel on health on Tuesday to brief its members on the development and distribution of the coronavirus vaccine and answer their queries. According to the listed agenda of the meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare, the health secretary and the director general (DG) of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) briefed the panel on Vaccine Development, Distribution Management and Mitigation of Pandemic COVID-19 .