Union Health Ministry issues a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the variant New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has said while there is no evidence to suggest that existing vaccines do not work on the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, some of the mutations reported may decrease the efficacy of the jabs. The Ministry…
Govt. orders one crore doses of Zydus vaccine
November 8, 2021Needle-free vaccine to be available in November; Deliberations on to decide its use among children New Delhi: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted officials to scale up door-to-door COVID vaccination to achieve full adult inoculation target by the year-end, the Health Ministry has ordered one crore doses of the world’s first and India’s indigenously…
Focus on districts with over 10 pc plus positivity rate: Centre to Karnataka
August 1, 2021New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has asked ten States including Karnataka to impose strict restrictions in all districts that are currently recording a positivity rate of more than 10 percent. The Centre said States must ensure that effective measures are taken to prevent crowding and intermingling of people in these districts. Positivity rate is…
States to get over 53 lakh Covid vaccine doses in next 3 days: Health Ministry
May 8, 2021New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Saturday said that the States and Union Territories will get more than 53 lakh (53,25,000) vaccine doses within the next three days. So far, over 17.49 crore free vaccine doses (17,49,57,770) have been received by them. As per Ministry data this morning, the total consumption, including wastages, is…
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