Covid Vaccine

22 Jun

“Vaccines are saving lives, now is the best time to take the vaccine”

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NITI Aayog member Dr V. K. Paul said thwarting the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic is in the hands of the people as “it can be stopped if Covid appropriate behaviour is followed, and majority of the people get vaccinated”. Paul’s remarks came a day after a record 85 lakh Covid vaccination doses were administered across the country till Monday midnight with the beginning of the implementation of the revised Covid-19 vaccination policy, in which the Centre is procuring 75 per cent of domestically available vaccines for free jabs to the 18-plus population. Paul reminded that a “third wave can…

19 Jun

WHO reports that 30 to 40 countries are unable to the second Covid doses

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According to WHO experts, 30 to 40 nations are unable to offer second doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, particularly those anticipating vaccines from AstraZeneca. On Friday, Xinhua news agency quoted Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to the WHO Director-General on Organizational Change, as stating, "We have a huge number of nations that have had to stop the deployment of their second doses of vaccine." Many nations who were anticipating AstraZeneca vaccines from the Serum Institute of India, which were to be provided through the WHO-led COVAX programme, saw their supplies cut as the manufacturer prioritised India's outbreak in April 2021. According…