Updated Feb 02, 2021 | 19:40 IST
There is some consensus among experts that if antibodies are prevalent in, at least, 70 per cent of a population, the virus chain of transmission is effectively broken. A medic collects samples during a door-to-door serological survey to analyse the spread of Covid-19, at Paharganj in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI
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Delhi s battle with the invisible virus has seen several crests and troughs
Between mid-September and mid-December cases did not, on one occasion fall below 1,800 with the nation s capital seeing its worst daily case count of 8,593 arriving on November 10
The results of the fifth serosurvey only add more fuel to the theory that the residents of the nation s capital have become increasingly resilient to the virus as a result of prolonged exposure
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Indians Googled How to Make Covid-19 Vaccine at Home as Historic Vaccination Drive Started
On January 16, almost a year since India reported its first coronavirus infection, the country launched the world s biggest vaccination drive.
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On January 16, almost a year since India reported its first coronavirus infection, the country launched the world s biggest vaccination drive with an agenda to inoculate around 30 crore high-risk people. The vaccine will first be given to 1 crore health care workers, followed by two crore frontline workers and 27 crore citizens over the age of 50 and people with co-morbidities.
Manish Kumar, a frontline sanitation worker at Delhi AIIMS, became the first person in the country to receive the first dose of coronavirus vaccine.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday that the Delhi government is prepared to increase vaccination sites as and when it receives more vaccines.On the inaugural day of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive on Saturday, .
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