COVID-19 Vaccines That Are Likely To Be Given In India In 2021!
India is currently surviving the second India is currently surviving the second wave of COVID-19 that has put its healthcare system on the verge of being collapsed. People are facing a scarcity of essential medical supplies such as oxygen and many other necessary medicines.
It has led to the shortage of vaccines that has hindered the hope of getting protected from the disease. Looking at the current trends, the government is making all the efforts to turn things around by the end of 2021.
NITI Aayog released a detailed plan about the availability of eight COVID-19 vaccines that will roll out to push the vaccination drive. It can be considered a significant and much-needed push that will help India get vaccinated quickly and proceed further to the step of gaining herd immunity.
A health worker in PPE collects a nasal sample from people for Covid-19 RT PCR test. (ANI photo)
NEW DELHI: In an encouraging development, a declining trend in the weekly positivity rate is observed which stands at 18.17 per cent today, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday.
The daily new Covid cases being registered in India was less than 3 lakh after 26 days, the ministry said.
According to health ministry data, 2,81,386 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours out of which Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 34,389, followed by Tamil Nadu with33,181 new cases. There has been an average decline in daily new cases since May 9, it pointed out.
Covid vaccine wastage of 1o states higher than national average
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The national average is 3.06%. In the red are 10 states, including the high caseload states of Rajasthan, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Punjab. Haryana has registered the highest vaccine wastage at 6.49%.
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Wastage has become a key issue especially at a time when India is facing a vaccine shortage. In the US, only 0.12% vaccine wastage was reported to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April.
With limited vaccine supplies and the Centre linking allocation to wastage, states are trying to bring down wastage with targeted district-level plans.
As a deadly second wave of Covid devastates India, people are grappling not just with the disease and its brutal after effects on the body, but with stress and anxiety, grief and terror in dealing with a pandemic, whose magnitude is overwhelming.
NEW DELHI: The Centre has asked states and union territories to refrain from approving additional categories as frontline workers for vaccination, and recommended doing so using only vaccines procured directly by them.
The missive from Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan came after states like Odisha included railway staff, forest guards, oxygen plant employees and other categories as front line workers (FLW). It has been learnt that some states/UTs are approving additional categories of persons as FLWs belonging to different departments (like govt departments of banking, railways, and transport etc). In this regard, states/UTS are advised to please note that the FLWs categories and their definition has been very clearly communicated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and no change in the categories of FLWS and their definition has been made by the Government of India.