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Paul, who is also the chairman of the National Expert Group On Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) said this committee has gone deeply into it and looked at which comorbidities the presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions in a patient should be kept in mind.
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More than 58 lakh beneficiaries have been vaccinated till now in India.
An expert committee set up to develop the criteria for identifying significant comorbidities present in a person, which would make that person priority individual for COVID-19 vaccination, will finalise its report in the next few days, Niti Aayog Member (Health) V K Paul said on Tuesday.
An expert committee set up to develop the criteria for identifying significant comorbidities present in a person, which would make that person priority individual for COVID-19 vaccination, will finalise its report in the next few days, Niti Aayog Member (Health) V K Paul said on Tuesday.
Manish Kumar (34) was oozing with confidence and satisfaction, which he had not experienced before, after taking the first jab of Covaxin at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here, becoming the first person in the country to be .
"We have started a pilot project with SpiceHealth here at the airport to find out if we can generate the sequence in less than 48 hours and inform the government in case there is a virus variant," said Anurag Agrawal, Director, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB).
Daily cases in India drop below 19,000 for the first time since July
Health ministry says India s total active caseload has fallen to 2.78 lakh lowest after 170 days . Delhi reported 655 cases in last 24 hrs lowest since mid-August.
Angana Chakrabarti 27 December, 2020 5:50 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: India’s daily Covid cases have dropped below the 19,000-mark for the first time in six months.
A statement by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) Sunday said as many as 18,732 cases of Covid-19 were recorded across the country in the last 24 hours. This is the lowest the daily case count has been in six months since 1 July when 18,653 cases were recorded.