Myths about after-effects of vaccination should be dispelled, say activists
At a conference of activists belonging to Makkal Nala Iyakkam (People’s Health Movement) of the Tamil Nadu unit, held virtually on Monday, several field workers called for increasing awareness on the spread of COVID-19 infection and vaccination.
The workers said among the lay public in the rural areas and among those with lower resources and poor education there was very little awareness about the seriousness of the infection. Such people needed to be given priority and protected, they said.
Several of them had concerns about the after-effects of vaccination. Some of them said as reports of people experiencing adverse reactions were shared among the community others hesitated to take the vaccine. A field worker said her father had refused the vaccine and advised her also to not get inoculated. Activists including Ameer Khan, N. Suresh and Dr. Gandhimathi dispelled the myth regarding vaccination and urg
India is hiring nurses on monthly contracts to fight Covid-19. The jobs have few takers.
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Sharad Kendre graduated from a nursing college in Maharashtra’s Latur district eight years ago. But he is still waiting for an opportunity to use his skills, even as the coronavirus pandemic strains the state’s public health systems and forces health workers employed in hospitals to work long hours without a break.
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India has reported 357,229 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours – the 13th straight day of more than 300,000 infections – taking its overall tally to more than 20 million. Deaths rose 3,449 for a toll of 222,408, health ministry data showed on Tuesday.
However, medical experts say the real numbers across the country of 1.35 billion may be five to 10 times higher than the official tally.
The steep climb in infections in the first week of April, when for the first time India surged past 100,000 cases, was indicative of an impending disaster.
In a matter of weeks, India descended into a COVID-19 hell as visuals of dead bodies lined up outside crematoriums, unending funeral pyres and burials emerged from its major cities and towns.