Kejriwal wants Centre to enable more firms to produce Covid-19 vaccines
May 11, 2021
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal - PTI×
To meet the high demand for Covid vaccines in the country, the Centre should enable more companies to manufacture vaccines for the benefit of the people.
Addressing a virtual press conference, Kejriwal said the know-how on the manufacture of Covid vaccines – currently available only with Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech – could be shared with other firms and appropriate royalty be paid to these two firms.
“Only two companies now produce vaccines. They produce only 6 to 7 crore vaccines a month. This way it will take over two years to vaccinate everyone in the country. Many Covid-19 waves would have come by then. It is important to increase vaccine production on war footing and frame a national plan to vaccinate all. Not just two, several companies should be deployed to produce vaccines. The Centre should collect the formula to pr
Covid-19 vaccine running out of stock for 18-44 age group, says Delhi Health Minister
May 10, 2021
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain×
The national capital’s new infections decline further to 12,651, the lowest since April 12 Delhi government has sounded out an SOS to the Centre on the Covid vaccine stocks front. Satyendra Jain, the State Health Minister, said that vaccine stocks are running out and that the city had only a day’s stock in respect of Covaxin and 2-3 days for Covishield. This is for those in the 18-44 years age group.
“We have an extreme shortage of vaccines in Delhi. For COVAXIN, we have stock left for only one day and for COVISHIELD, only 3-days stock is available. We really want the entire population of Delhi to be vaccinated and are conducting a mass vaccination drive”, he told reporters after visiting a 400 bed isolation and treatment centre for Covid patients in Rakabganj Gurdwara. This centre has been set up by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara management
Covid-19: Delhi daily new infections and deaths dips on May 9
May 09, 2021
The test positivity rate too slipped to 21.67%
The national capital Delhi saw further decline in both daily new Covid-19 infections and deaths during the 24 hours till Sunday, reflecting some improvement to the situation, although the city s medical infrastructure is still overwhelmed by the second wave of the pandemic.
While new Covid-19 infections declined to 13,336 in the last 24 hours to Sunday from 17,364 as of Saturday, the number of daily Covid-19 deaths fell to 273 on Sunday, Delhi State Health Bulletin released showed. The total number of deaths stood at 332 in the last 24 hours to Saturday.
May 08, 2021
However, test positivity rate high at 23 per cent
The national capital Delhi saw both daily new Covid-19 infections and deaths come down during the 24 hours to Saturday, bringing slight respite to the city ravaged by the second wave of the pandemic since the beginning of this month.
While new Covid-19 infections declined to 17,364 as of Saturday, the number of Covid-19 deaths stood at 332, according to the latest Delhi State Health Bulletin issued on Saturday. On the previous day, Delhi saw new infections of 19,832 and daily deaths of 341. As many as 19,071 people in Delhi have lost their lives since the beginning of the pandemic last year.
May 05, 2021
Workers sanitise a Covid-19 isolation and treatment centre, at the Sant Nirankari Mission at Burari, in New Delhi - PTI
Workers sanitise a Covid-19 isolation and treatment centre, at the Sant Nirankari Mission at Burari, in New Delhi - PTI×
However, cumulative positivity rate rises to 7.16 per cent
The number of daily deaths on account of Covid-19 in the national Capital which had reached alarming levels in recent days dropped lower, with Wednesday’s count (in the last 24 hrs) coming in at 311, lower than the 338 recorded on the previous day and 448 on Monday.
The overall death toll in the city till date since the outbreak of pandemic last year, stood at 18,063.