Updated Jan 30, 2021 | 00:00 IST
COVID-19 vaccine: More than 33 lakh healthcare workers have been vaccinated across the country till January 29 evening. India s COVID-19 vaccination drive
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India has approved Covaxin and Covishield for its COVID-19 vaccination drive.
India s coronavirus national recovery rate was recorded at 96.96 per cent on Jan 29, 2021 COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent
New Delhi: Amid a successful COVID-19 vaccination drive, the union health ministry on Friday asked states to begin coronavirus inoculation of frontline workers along with healthcare providers from the first week of February. India launched its coronavirus vaccination program on January 16, 2021. As per the union health ministry s data, over 33 lakh healthcare workers have been vaccinated so far.
Former TRAI chief RS Sharma to take over as CEO of National Health Authority
January 29, 2021
Former TRAI chief and UIDAI chairman Ram Sewak Sharma will take over as chief executive of the National Health Authority,
which is the implementation body for Ayushman Bharat as well as the National Digital Health Mission, reported Business Standard.
The appointment comes amidst rollout of India’s vaccination program against COVID-19; Sharma has recently been named the chairperson of the empowered committee for CoWIN, the government’s COVID-19 vaccine delivery platform. He will take charge on February 1, replacing Dr. Indu Bhushan, whose three-year term has concluded.
The acceleration of the vaccination efforts against Covid-19 at scale would help India to come out of the pandemic crisis faster and sooner revive the economy and create jobs, said Nandan Nilekani, founding architect of Aadhaar and co-founder of Infosys. He said this would require strong cooperation between the government and the private sector and it is a too big task for one person and organisation to accomplish. “If you have to vaccinate at scale, we would have to vaccinate 5-10 million people per day, to make it happen,” said Nilekani at an event organised by Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI).
By Sarada Mahesh
Earlier this month, residents from Madhya Pradesh were enrolled in the COVID-19 vaccine trial conducted by the People’s College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre – a private hospital in Bhopal. There were reports that neither were participants given a consent form nor were they informed of the vaccine’s side effects. The hospital administering the trial denied these allegations. India still does not have a Data Protection Act to address such situations, with the Bill remaining under discussion by a Joint Parliamentary Committee.
As the COVID-19 vaccination drive in India goes into full swing, it is important for a clear and enforceable privacy policy to be in place to protect the people to whom shots are being administered.
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