Updated Jan 19, 2021, 4:37 am IST
Decision after staff refuses to take vaccine that is on trial
Government of India had approved the use of Covaxin as part of the vaccination drive as one under a “clinical trial mode”. This, it was learnt, was causing concern among potential recipients of this particular vaccine among some healthcare personnel in the state. (Representational Photo)
Hyderabad: A quickly planned rollout of Covaxin, a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the city-based Bharat Biotech, was on Monday equally quickly pulled back without any explanation by the State health department authorities. Covaxin was to become a matter of pride for the state and government, being a ‘Made in Telangana’ vaccine.
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COVID vaccines to be given in two doses with a gap of four weeks
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A police vehicle accompanies a container truck carrying COVID-19 vaccine that arrived at the Commissionerate of Health and Family Welfare in Hyderabad on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal
COVID vaccines to be given in two doses with a gap of four weeks
Almost ten months after the outbreak of COVID-19 in Telangana, the State government on Tuesday received the first consignment of 3.64 lakh doses of COVID vaccine Covishield, manufactured by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII).
The Covishield containers arrived at the RGIA in a freighter aircraft and were transported from there to the State vaccine storage centre in the city in a deep freezer van.
Updated Dec 30, 2020 | 10:35 IST
Telangana health department had traced 90% of all UK returnees in the last three days, tested them and the positive samples were sent for genome sequencing to CCMB. Two new Covid variant cases found in Telangana, 90% of UK returnees tracked | Photo Credit: AP
Hyderabad: Two fresh Covid variant cases were identified by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. Two people who returned from the UK have tested positive for the fresh mutated variant of Covid.
One person is from Andhra Pradesh while the other is from Telangana, according to the state health department. A total of six samples studied across different labs in India have been found to have the fresh variant, according to a press release from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare yesterday.
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The lone positive patient is reportedly from the Warangal district of state
The Telangana govt is still mum regarding tracing, testing and treating the possible contacts of this patient.
Hyderabad: Even 24 hours after the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare disclosed that six returnees from the United Kingdom have tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus (B 1.1.7), the Telangana government and the state’s health department are tight-lipped about the lone positive patient with a new variant virus.
The lone positive patient is reportedly from the Warangal district of state but the Telangana government is still mum regarding tracing, testing and treating the possible contacts of this patient. Along with a single case in