India needs 93 lakh COVID-19 vaccinations per day to achieve herd immunity by Sept: FinMin
The ministry says as per India s demographic distribution, 86.5 crore people or 63.1 per cent of the population is above 18 years of age. Assuming herd immunity at 80 per cent, the target population to be vaccinated is 70 crore, it adds
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To avoid or lower the ferocity of subsequent waves, an accelerated vaccination drive is imperative, says the finance ministry
The finance ministry, in its latest monthly economic review for May, has said the momentum of economic recovery has been moderated by the ravaging second wave of COVID-19. Unlike the first wave, the effect of the second wave has been asynchronous in its onset across states and wider in its spread as the second wave also entered the rural hinterland, the report said.
Fact Check: Lessons in classroom teaching from Thailand? No, this image is one year old
Shared by a Facebook user, a picture of Thai students cocooned in plastic cubicles while at school is doing the rounds on social media. India Today s Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be fake.
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UPDATED: June 9, 2021 21:27 IST
The picture was shared by a Facebook user claiming that Thailand is conducting classes in this manner.
The pandemic has forced India to shut schools and cancel the board examinations for classes 10 and 12. The situation is no different in many other countries.
it feel marvellous, really. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the us vice president kamala harris has warned guatemalans against coming to the united states, saying they would be turned back at the border. the first new treatment for alzheimer s for nearly twenty years has been approved by us regulators. india s second covid 19 wave initially ravaged cities but it soon reached rural parts of the country. many died due to poor or no access to good healthcare. most of them were not even able to get a covid test done. now experts believe that the number of deaths in rural india is much higher than official statistics. the bbc s vikas pandey and anshul verma visited
india s second covid 19 wave initially ravaged cities but it soon reached rural parts of the country. many died due to poor or no access to good health care. most of them were not even able to get a covid test done. now experts believe that the number of deaths in rural india is much higher than official statistics. the bbc vikas pandey and anshul verma visited two villages in the northern indian state of uttar pradesh to investigate alleged under reporting of covid 19 deaths. the visuals you are seeing are from the northern indian city. local say these are the graves of people who died of a covid in april.
Older citizens, who are more vulnerable to Covid-19, seem to have coped better in the second wave. While 15.06% cases in the first wave were of the 51-60 age group, the figure dropped to 13.36% in the second. For the 61-70 age group, the figure declined from 9.14% cases in the first wave to 8.22% in the April-May surge of 2021.There is a decline, although much smaller, in the 71-plus age group as well.