Harsh Vardhan said there have been a little more than 1 crore of Covid cases in India (Representative)
New Delhi:
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that the country’s scientists and health experts have been working on the development of a indigenous vaccine and that in the next six to seven months India will have the capacity to inoculate about 30 millions of people.
Addressing the 22nd meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19, the Minister of Health said: “Our scientists and health experts have worked on the development of a vaccine by genome sequencing and coronavirus isolation and They have developed an indigenous vaccine. 7 months, we will have the capacity to inoculate about 30 million people. “
The Health Minister said: “There have been just over a million COVID-19 cases in India. Of that 95 lakh 50 thousand cases have been successfully recovered. India has one of the highest recovery rates in the world. world with 95.46 percent “. “
During his speech, he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “exemplary leadership” during the coronavirus pandemic.
“… I would like to thank everyone, in particular our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has provided us with exemplary leadership over the last year, leading from the front and monitoring everything very, very meticulously. Even now that we are in the development of the vaccine, he himself is visiting each and every one of the laboratories in the country, ”he said.
This comes after India’s COVID-19 case count crossed the 1 crore mark.
Observing the fact that despite the festivals in the months of October and November, no further increase in cases was observed in this period, the Union Minister of Health and the President of the GOM reiterated their concern and call to maintain diligently COVID Proper Behavior even at a time when the country is about to authorize the first set of vaccines.
According to an official statement, he also expressed the need for an expedited vaccination campaign to cover all the target populations estimated at around 30 million rupees.
Dr Sujeet K Singh, Director (NCDC) presented a detailed report on how graded, data-driven government policies have helped India achieve significant control over the pandemic.
Dr. Singh presented a granular analysis of the pandemic trajectory in each state noting critical parameters such as positivity, RAT and RT-PCR breakdown percentage, concentration of cases in particular districts, and other trends such as one fatality and one fatality within 48 and 72 hours of hospitalization.
Dr. Vinod K Paul, Member (H) NITI Aayog informed the Government of Mexico on three critical aspects of vaccination; the process of a pre-clinical and clinical trial of all vaccines, details of the six vaccine candidates being tested in India. In addition, it also informed the Government of Mexico about the requests for vaccines received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 12 other countries.
The Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan highlighted the importance of health-seeking behavior among the population as a key factor in controlling mortality.
Explaining the paradox of some states / UT reporting very high cases but minimal deaths, while others report low cases but comparatively high deaths, he said that this phenomenon is due to people not showing up for testing even if symptomatic in the second category of states. the statement said.
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