The clarification comes following reports that health workers in Uttar Pradesh s Siddharthnagar district administered Covaxin to 20 villagers who had been given Covishield in the first dose.
The auxiliary nursing midwife (ANM) was suspended for negligence on Thursday after 20 people in a UP village were administered mixed doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
Here are the updates from Thursday:
The Centre said India was on a downswing of the second wave of the coronavirus and added that there was a steady decline in the number of Covid-19 cases in the last 20 days even though the number of tests had been increased. Government officials added that they believe the downswing will be sustained even when restrictions are relaxed.
India reported 2,11,298 new cases, taking the overall tally to 2,73,69,093 since the pandemic first broke out in January 2020. The toll rose by 3,847 to 3,15,235, while the active caseload stood at 24,19,907.
The Centre dismissed a report in
The
New York Times that claimed that India’s toll was probably around 42 lakh as “baseless and false”. The analysis by the newspaper also showed that the total coronavirus infections in the country could be around 70.07 crore.
The clarification comes following reports that health workers in Uttar Pradesh s Siddharthnagar district administered Covaxin to 20 villagers who had been given Covishield in the first dose.