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Explained: Pulse Polio Vs COVID-19 Vaccination Is A Paper Tiger Being Set Up By Those Who Have Nothing Useful To Say
by Swarajya Staff - May 13, 2021 09:54 AM
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India has never had a mass vaccine program for adults, at least one that needs to administer jabs to 100 crore adults in 6-8 months
If only India had launched a universal free vaccination programme in December - like the hugely successful pulse polio programme, reads the tweet of a social media user.
The same sentiment is being expressed in the circles which were not too long ago planting doubts about the efficacy of vaccination against COVID-19.
In a submission before the Supreme Court on May 9, the government has said that the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity of India for three vaccines - Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V - could cumulatively cross 14 crore doses a month by July 2021
Data Shows COVID-19 Jab Effectively Protected Those Above 60 In Second Wave; By When Can India Expect Full Vaccination?
by Swarajya Staff - May 12, 2021 05:25 AM
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A team of scientists has reported that data shows that the vaccination programme has been effective in reducing infections among those aged 60 and above.
An article authored by T S Ganesan, Professor, Medical Oncology and Clinical Research, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai; R Rajaraman, Professor, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam; and R Shankar, Honorary Professor, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai; and published in
The Hindu charts the growth in COVID-19 infection with vaccination.
Vaccine production gradually ramped up, says Centre
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The vaccine production was expected to increase in the next couple of months, it stated
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The vaccine production was expected to increase in the next couple of months, it stated
The Centre informed the Supreme Court that the production capacity of COVID-19 vaccines had been “gradually ramped up” in the light of the immunisation drive.
“In times of grave and unprecedented crisis when the nation is fighting a disaster of unprecedented magnitude, the executive functioning of the government needs discretion to formulate policy in larger interest. It is submitted that in view of the unprecedented and peculiar circumstances under which vaccination drive is devised as an executive policy, the wisdom of the executive should be trusted,” it noted.