Coronavirus | Vaccine centres to be open on all days in April
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Objective is to increase pace and coverage of vaccination
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People give their details before getting vaccinated at a COVID-19 government health care centre, in New Delhi, Thursday, April 1, 2021. The third phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive for 65 lakh people aged above 45 has begun in the national capital from today. | Photo Credit:
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Objective is to increase pace and coverage of vaccination The Centre has decided to operationalise both public and private COVID Vaccination Centres (CVCs) on all days in April, according to a statement from the Health Ministry on Thursday.
Ratan Tata takes first shot of COVID-19 vaccine
Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata hoped everyone can be immunised and protected soon from the coronavirus pandemic, having got himself vaccinated.
Mr. Tata in a social media post praised the process of vaccination, describing it as effortless and painless . Very thankful to have gotten my first vaccination shot today. It was effortless and painless, he said.
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20 lakh jabs on Friday, highest so far: Govt
The Health Ministry said on Saturday that more than 20 lakh vaccine doses against the coronavirus were administered across the country the previous day, the highest single-day count so far As many as 16,39,663 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose – healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) – and 4,13,874 such people received the second shot.
Principal Secretary to Prime Minister P.K. Misra on Tuesday chaired a high level review meeting by video conference on Tuesday to review the status and progress of COVID vaccination across States and UTs.
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Centre has also asked states to look into strict, comprehensive surveillance and stringent containment to curb the spread of the virus.
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New South Wales Police officer Lachlan Pritchard receives the Pfizer vaccine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Vaccination Hub in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. | Photo Credit: AP
Centre has also asked states to look into strict, comprehensive surveillance and stringent containment to curb the spread of the virus.
The Centre has written to States Kerala, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and J&K which are witnessing a daily surge in the number of daily COVID-19 cases directing an increase in proportion of RT-PCR tests while ensuring that those testing negative with Rapid Antigen be retested by RT-PCR.