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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s health minister on Thursday declared its COVID-19 epidemic contained as, with most of the country’s active patients concentrated in two states, a fifth of districts completed a week with no new cases.
FILE PHOTO: A health worker and a volunteer take part in a nationwide trial run of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine delivery systems, inside a school, which has been converted into a temporary vaccination centre, in New Delhi, India, January 8, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
However, an inoculation campaign touted by the government as the world’s biggest is progressing unevenly, with a survey showing more than half of Indians reluctant to get vaccinated immediately.
A healthcare worker receives a dose of COVISHIELD, a Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, inside a classroom of school, which has been converted into a temporary vaccination centre, in Ahmedabad, India on January 28, 2021. Reuters
India said on Thursday it had curbed an increase in Covid-19 infections, with a fifth of its districts reporting no new cases for a week, even as its immunisation campaign has covered 2.4 million people.
The country of 1.35 billion has recorded the highest number of cases in the world after the United States, though the rate of infection has come down significantly since a mid-September peak. Some studies have suggested pockets of India have attained herd immunity through natural infection.
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Govt Says Covid Contained as One-Fifth of India s Districts Report Zero New Cases in a Week
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan (Centre) visits a Covid-19 vaccination center during a vaccine delivery system trial in New Delhi. (AP)
India said on Thursday it had curbed an increase in COVID19 infections, with a fifth of its districts reporting no new cases for a week, even as its immunisation campaign has covered 2.4 million people.
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The central government said on Thursday it had curbed an increase in Covid-19 infections as a fifth of its districts had reported not a single new new cases for a week. The flattening of the curve comes as India started its vaccination programme two weeks ago, with 24 lakh frontline workers being covered till now.
Collective efforts stressed to free society from drug abuses
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collective efforts of all government and non-government organisations
concerned are very important for strengthening the grassroots level anti-drug
campaign.
movements and efforts of preventing drug abuse effective and fruitful to
protect the young generation from further degradation. The observation came
at an orientation for community action group members held at Valukgachhi
Union Parishad Complex Hall Room under Puthiya Upazila in Rajshahi district
on Wednesday.
the meeting in association with Ashakta Punarbashan Sangstha (APOSH) and Nari
O Shishu Kalyan Society (NSKS) under the ‘Drug Abuse Resistance and
Understanding – DARAU’ project and Promoting Advocacy and Rights (PAR).