Per week after it rolled out the world’s largest immunisation drive in opposition to Covid-19, India on Saturday accomplished administering the primary dose of the vaccine to greater than 15 lakh beneficiaries within the precedence teams of healthcare and frontline staff.
A complete of 15,37,190 beneficiaries have been vaccinated by 27,776 vaccination classes until 6 pm on Saturday, the well being ministry mentioned.
India’s crossing the 15-lakh mark in every week after the rollout was launched on January 16 is considerably greater than numbers within the first week throughout different international locations: the US vaccinated 5.56 lakh, 1.37 lakh have been inoculated within the UK whereas Russia vaccinated 52,000.
As per the official information compiled by the Health Ministry on Saturday morning, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and Telangana reported the best cumulative vaccinations within the first week of immunisation drive.
In the primary week, a complete of 11 beneficiaries have been hospitalized after reporting an opposed occasion publish immunization — 0.0007 per cent of the full vaccinations. Six deaths have been reported within the nation, however the well being ministry has mentioned that “none of these deaths have been causally linked with Covid-19 vaccination”.
In the second week, the well being ministry mentioned that seven new states may even use the Bharat Biotech-ICMR vaccine — Covaxin — that’s being administered in a “clinical trial mode” cleared for restricted use on the idea of solely security and immunogenicity information from section 1 and a couple of of the human medical trials. Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and West Bengal are the brand new states that may administer Covaxin from subsequent week, the well being ministry mentioned.
Currently, solely 12 states have been utilizing each Covaxin and Serum Institute-manufactured Covishield. “Orientation of all Programme Managers of these 7 States was conducted today by ICMR & Health Ministry covering all aspects of implementation protocols,” mentioned Dr Manohar Agnani, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
On Saturday, Agnani mentioned that the Indian authorities additionally accomplished the two-day coaching of the Immunization Programme Managers of 13 international locations — Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Seychelles and Sri Lanka — utilizing Indian-manufactured vaccines.
The Health Ministry mentioned that within the final 24 hours, yet one more demise has been reported from Gurgaon, however the publish mortem confirms it isn’t linked to the vaccination. “In the last 24 hours, one person aged 56 years who was a resident of Gurugram, Haryana has died. The Post-mortem confirms that Cardio-pulmonary disease was the reason for her death and it was not related to vaccination,” Agnani mentioned. The well being ministry additionally mentioned that within the final 24 hours, one individual, who was vaccinated on January 20, has been hospitalised at Government Hospital, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
