Open Vaccine For All: All The States That Have Made The Demand
A list of states that have demanded the Centre to open vaccination to all: File Photo Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-09T07:51:28+05:30 Open Vaccine For All: All The States That Have Made The Demand outlookindia.com 2021-04-09T07:53:58+05:30
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Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain has requested the Central government to allow vaccinations for all adults to contain the rising number of covid-19 cases in the country.
“CM (Arvind Kejriwal) had written to the Centre that vaccination should be opened for all. We have made two more requests that vaccination should be allowed at least for all adults. Secondly, it should be allowed even at camp settings, and not only at health care facilities,” Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said.
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People stand in a queue to receive Covaxin vaccine dose at Hindu Rao Hospital in New Delhi.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday dismissed as farce the hue and cry by certain states about partisanship by the Centre and called it an attempt to hide their own incompetence, saying non-BJP ruled Maharashtra and Rajasthan figured among the top three states based on the allocation of vaccines.
As COVID-19 cases in India hit a record high, Vardhan said that 9.1 crore vaccine doses have been utilised, while 2.4 crore are in stock and 1.9 crore vaccines are in the pipeline, indicating there are sufficient doses available for all states.
641 Alarming: The second wave of Covid-19 has arrived at a time when people had started celebrating the country’s success in tackling the first wave effectively. PTI
Dinesh C Sharma
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After a lull, the coronavirus has hit back. The numbers are rising in many states and the highest single day rise in new cases nationally has surpassed the peak reported in September 2020. Experts had predicted a second and possibly a third wave right at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 because waves are a recurring theme of pandemics. The influenza pandemic of 1918 occurred in three waves spread over two years. A surge in the number of cases, with a clearly defined peak, makes a new wave. The waves may surface in different parts of the world at different times, but their duration and magnitude are highly unpredictable. The severity or lack of it in a new wave may differ vastly. For instance, the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa was slower than in the rest of
Amid the Surge in COVID Cases, Is India Running out of Vaccines?
Maharashtra, Delhi, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Punjab have reported vaccine shortage even as Centre denied the claim
| 9 April 2021 11:39 AM GMT
New Delhi: As India continues to grapple with the second wave of coronavirus on, it has been reported that states with maximum number of COVID cases have run out of Covid vaccines.
Amid rise in new coronavirus cases, many states including Maharashtra, Delhi, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Punjab have reported vaccine shortage in several COVID centres even as Centre denied the claim.
India registered over 1.31 lakh Covid cases in just 24 hours on Thursday. Maharashtra continues to be the pandemic s epicentre in India and the worst hit state with 56,286 cases recorded on Thursday.