Updated: December 14, 2020 9:21:07 pm
More than 75 percent of new cases are seen in 10 states and union territories. (Representative)
India reported just 27,000 new cases on Monday, even as the Center issued guidelines for the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, which includes dosing 100-200 people in each session per day and monitoring them for 30 minutes after giving the injections. The COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) system will be used to track beneficiaries enlisted for vaccination in real time.
India now has only 3.52,586 active cases, representing 3.57 percent of the total number of cases, the lowest after 149 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. With 336 new deaths, the death toll now stands at 1.43,355. This is the lowest peak of deaths in a single day in about 6 months.
Meanwhile, Russia published new results of its Sputnik V vaccine trial based on new data, saying that again it was found that the shot was 91.4% effective by providing protection against Covid-19. The results are crucial for India, where the vaccine is being tested in humans in intermediate to late stage trials by Hyderabad-based Dr Reddy’s Laboratories. He too largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history It began on Monday when healthcare workers began receiving the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.
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Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester in the New York borough of Queens (AP)
New York on Monday inoculated its first healthcare worker, an intensive care unit nurse in Queens, with the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, marking a pivotal turn in the U.S. effort to control the virus. mortal. Sandra Lindsay, an ICU nurse, received the vaccine at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York, one of the first epicenters of the Covid-19 outbreak in the country, and received applause on a live broadcast with the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
“It felt no different than taking any other vaccine,” Lindsay said. “I feel hopeful today, relieved. I feel the healing approaching. I hope this marks the beginning of the end of a very painful time in our history. I want to instill public confidence that the vaccine is safe. “Minutes after Lindsay’s injection, President Donald Trump tweeted:” First vaccine administered. Congratulations USA! Congratulations WORLD! “
Russian developers of the coronavirus vaccine released new results from their Sputnik V vaccine trial on Monday based on new data, saying that the injection had again been found to be 91.4% effective in providing protection against Covid. -19. The results are crucial for India, where the vaccine is being tested in humans in intermediate to late stage trials by Hyderabad-based Dr Reddy’s Laboratories.
More than 100,000 people have already been vaccinated against the disease as part of Russia’s mass inoculation program, which began in September in conjunction with a Moscow-based human trial of the vaccine. The new results are based on data from 22,714 trial participants, and were released after 78 confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported among the group, researchers from the Gamaleya Institute said in a statement Monday with the Russian Fund for Direct Investment ( RDIF). which is marketing the shot abroad.
Jitan Ram Manjhi tests positive for Covid-19
Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi tested positive for COVID-19, after which the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) national executive meeting was postponed. According to a statement released by HAM on Monday, its septuagenarian founding president was convalescing after testing positive for the coronavirus.
The party office, which has been established by the Strand Road bungalow assigned to Manjhi in his capacity as ex-CM, has also been closed for a week, according to the statement.
The IIT-Madras campus was placed under temporary lockdown after 104 students and members of the institution’s staff tested positive for coronavirus. The state health department and IIT administration have yet to identify the source of the outbreak.
According to local reports, the students had claimed that there was overcrowding in the shelter’s clutter and this could have caused the infection to spread. This is one of the largest groups that has emerged in Chennai after the state government allowed educational institutions to function from December 7.
In the past 10 days, 71 IIT-Madras residents tested positive for Covid-19 and on Monday, 33 more were found to be infected. Addressing reporters in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan said: “We have taken 447 samples so far. The positivity rate is around 20 percent now. People should not panic, we are doing aggressive testing and trying to stop the spread. “
Manipur suspends thermal control of passengers entering by road
Nine months later, the Manipur government has discontinued the thermal control of passengers entering the state through its two national highways. The state had established two checkpoints, one at Mao Gate, on the border with Nagaland, and one at Jiribam, on the border with Assam. Manipur’s health department said the decision to suspend screening was to allow the department to place more emphasis on the deployment of manpower in Covid-19 hospitals and non-Covid healthcare facilities.
Up to 30 health officials were withdrawn and would be deployed to Covid-19 centers or hospitals as required, the department said. Earlier, Senior Secretary (Health) Vumlunmang had also noted that the positivity rate was gradually decreasing in December. Manipur’s recovery rate stands at 90.92%.
With 336 new deaths, the death toll now stands at 1.43,355. This is the lowest peak of deaths in a single day in about 6 months. (Figurative)
Increase testing in districts where caseloads are high: HC to Delhi government
The Delhi High Court told the AAP government on Monday to increase the number of COVID-19 tests in those districts of the national capital where infection numbers are high. A court of judges Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad orally suggested to the Delhi government to find out in which districts of the city infection figures were increasing and said “we hope that testing in those areas will increase.”
The suggestion came during the brief hearing of a statement from lawyer Rakesh Malhotra that sought to increase the number of Covid-19 tests in the national capital and obtain quick results. As the matter could not be heard in detail due to time constraints, the court requested the Delhi government, represented by additional permanent attorney Satyakam, to submit a new status report within a week stating the updated evidence figures. carried out, by district number of infections in the city and number of containment zones.
Daily recoveries are exceeding the new cases of the last 17 days, the ministry noted.
Five undergraduate medical slots have been allocated for the children of the COVID-19 warriors who died in Puducherry at as many universities across the country for 2020-21 under a central scheme, the government of the union territory said on Sunday.
Seats were reserved at Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi, MGMS Vardha (Maharashtra), NSCB Medical College Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), JLN Medical College (Ajmer) and GMC Haldwani (Uttarakhand), said Director of Health and Family Welfare S Mohan Kumar. .
(With PTI inputs)
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