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Covid: After Covaxin, ZyCov-D vaccines, Belagavi hospital to conduct trials of Sanofi vaccine- The New Indian Express
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BENGALURU, MYSURU: While the vaccination drive should have picked up pace with the surge in Covid cases and deaths, the State Government is not close to its targets as yet. None of the four segments categorised for vaccine coverage has reached 30 per cent of respective populations.Starting with healthcare workers on January 16, of the estimated 16 lakh, only 4.77 lakh (4,77,210) have completed vaccinations (both doses), achieving only 29.82 per cent of the target with 11,22,790 remaining. This is the segment that has seen the highest coverage in the State with the remaining categories recording far lower percentages.
A mere 2,20,415 (just 1.10 per cent) of the two crore frontline workers across Karnataka have received both doses, leaving 1.97 crore (1,97,79,585) yet to complete the dosage; only 13.28 per cent (22,05,779) have been vaccinated among the 1.66 crore-strong segment of 45-plus age category, leaving 1.43 crore (1,43,94,230) yet to complete the vaccina
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BELAGAVI: Jeevan Rekha Hospital in Belagavi has successfully conducted the first-phase clinical trials of the country s second indigenously-developed COVID-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, on 20 children between the age of 12 and 18 years.
None of the children who underwent the clinical trials are having any side effects or other health complications two months after the vaccines were administered to them, said Dr Amit Bhate, Director of Jeevan Rekha Hospital.
The hospital was also one of the 12 centres in the country where clinical trials of Covaxin took place successfully last year.
Speaking to
The New Indian Express, Dr Bhate said the doctors of his hospital were keeping a tab on the condition of all the 20 children for the past two months at regular intervals and found that they were healthy. All the children had been administered three ZyCoV-D doses each during the clinical trials.