Covid-19 vaccines: Investigate adverse events and make reports public, say public health professionals
March 17, 2021
EMA report on AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine and blood clot reports expected tomorrow Even as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) reviews the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine after more than 10 countries temporarily suspended its use, a group of public health professionals have called for an investigation of deaths and serious adverse events in India as well.
“AEFIs (adverse events following immunisation) are to be investigated through well-defined procedures for vaccine pharmacovigilance, and the reports made available in the public domain, for trust-building and transparency,” the public health representatives said in a letter to Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and others involved with the vaccines programme.
Lockdowns will be debilitating : Anand Mahindra suggests way to curb COVID spread in Maharashtra
COVID-19 in Maharashtra: Over half the new daily cases are in Maharashtra.The state is the nerve-centre of the country s economic activity & more lockdowns will be debilitating, said Mahindra
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Anand Mahindra says lockdown in Maharashtra will be debilitating
Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra said that imposing further lockdown in the nerve-centre of the country s economic activity will prove to be debilitating. He said that over half of the new daily cases are in Maharashtra and lockdowns could prove to be detrimental to India s economic activity. He said that there is another viable solution to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state emergency permission to vaccinate everyone who s willing to take it, irrespective of their age group.
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Rajnath, Harsh Vardhan, other Union ministers receive first vaccine shot
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his first dose of Covid-19 vaccine in the second phase drive, senior Union ministers, including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan also got themselves vaccinated in the national capital on Tuesday.
While Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad got inoculated in Patna, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi got his first shot of anti-coronavirus vaccine in Rampur.
Dr Vardhan along with his wife took the first dose of indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine- Covaxin, at the Delhi Heart and Lung Institute, by paying Rs 250 each for the jab.
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Opinion | Covid vaccination: How Modi inspired
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led from the front on Monday to launch the Covid vaccination program for all Indians above the age of 60 years. He quietly left his official residence 7, Lok Kalyan Marg at 6 am and went to AIIMS in a small convoy of security vehicles, without any big security protocol, and got himself Covaxin dose from two South Indian nurses. After the mandatory half an hour observation, Modi quietly returned home, and posted pictures on social media to break the news to the world. This was a quiet statement of confidence from the PM in the indigenously developed Covid vaccine (Covaxin) about which some experts had raised lack of adequate efficacy data in recent months.