New Covid strain: India alert, no need to panic, says Health Minister Harsh Vardhan
Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan.
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The Union Health Ministry has called an urgent meeting of its Joint Monitoring Group today to discuss the emergence of a mutated variant of the coronavirus in the UK
Meanwhile, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has urged the govt to ban all flights from the UK right now over mutant Covid-19 strain
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Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday said that the Central Government is alert and scientists are closely keeping an eye on each development about the discovery of the new strain of coronavirus in the United Kingdom.
‘Cause for concern’
The EMA said it took longer than Britain the former home of the agency and the US because they used a special, short-term emergency authorisation.
The “conditional marketing authorisation” issued on Monday however lasts for one year and required more rigorous testing, it said.
The EMA also had to contend with a cyberattack in which data from the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines was stolen.
Cooke said the agency had “worked night and day” to speed things up, but needed to make sure the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was safe and effective, in order to avoid any doubts that could affect uptake.
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