With 17,411 more recoveries, the total number of discharges reached 1,02,28,753.The Union Health Ministry today informed that the total number of persons found positive with UK strain of COVID-19 is 141
India COVID Vaccination, Across Inda, over 1.5 lakh staff have been trained.
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Nearly a year after India reported its first case of coronavirus from Kerala, the start of the end of the pandemic , as Health Minister Harsh Vardhan described it on Friday, began this morning with Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching the nationwide rollout. The government aims to vaccinate 1 crore healthcare workers and 2 crore frontline workers in the first phase.
Across the country, states have geared up for the task after three dry runs - two of them nationwide - in the last few weeks. India s Covid tally surged to 1.05 crore cases this morning with 15,158 new infections; over 1.5 lakh patients have died since the beginning of the pandemic.
COVID-19 vaccination: Here’s which vaccine states have received and what they have planned
The Health Ministry has clarified that both the approved vaccines - Covishield and COVAXIN - will be treated at par. January 16, 2021 / 07:13 AM IST
India is set to start its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16 with two vaccines - Covishield and COVAXIN. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) had on January 3 granted emergency use authorisation to the two COVID-19 vaccines developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), and Bharat Biotech, respectively.
According to the government, 1.1 crore vials of Covishield and 55 lakh vials of Bharat Biotech have been ordered.
Coronavirus | Vaccine dilemma to take or not to take Covaxin
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Is it ethical to offer one healthcare worker the Covaxin whose efficacy is unknown and another healthcare worker the Covishield whose efficacy is known even though both face the same risk of infection at work?
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A medic fills a syringe with COVAXIN before administering it to a health worker during its trials, at the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society in Ahmedabad on November 26, 2020.
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Is it ethical to offer one healthcare worker the Covaxin whose efficacy is unknown and another healthcare worker the Covishield whose efficacy is known even though both face the same risk of infection at work?
Around 3 lakh healthcare workers will be inoculated at 2,934 sites across the country on the first day of the massive nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive which is set to begin from January 16, official sources said. Each vaccination session will cater to a maximum of 100 beneficiaries and the Union Health Ministry has advised states not to organise unreasonable numbers of vaccination per site per day . States have been advised to organise vaccination sessions taking into account 10 per cent reserve/wastage doses and an average of 100 vaccinations per session each day. Therefore, any undue haste on the part of states to organize unreasonable numbers of vaccination per site per day is not advised, the ministry said on Wednesday.