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Record beneficiaries verified in single day under Ayushman campaign
The Aapke Dwar Ayushman drive is successfully running in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir among other states, according to the statement.
A total of 1.2 crore Ayushman cards have been generated this year. It is expected that others states will soon join the drive.
WHO experts to meet over AstraZeneca vaccine blood clot fears as coronavirus cases surge
The three largest EU nations- Germany, Italy and France- joined others in suspending the shot Monday, dealing a blow to the global immunisation campaign against a disease that has killed more than 2.6 million people.
India records 26,291 new cases, highest single-day rise in 85 days
Registering an upward trend for five days in a row, the total active caseload has gone up to 2,19,262 which is 1.93 per cent of the total infections in the country, while the recovery rate has dropped to 96.68 per cent, the data stated.
Jal Shakti Minsitry launches famework for water quality testing, monitoring
According to a 2018 assessment by the Central Ground Water Board, 52 percent of all the blocks in the country have inter alia any one of the geogenic contaminants like arsenic, chloride, fluoride, iron, nitrate, and salinity. Nearly 20 states in India have drinking water sources contaminated with arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, iron, salinity, or heavy metals.
British Airways calls for vaccinated people to travel without restrictions
He wants government to give its backing to health apps that can be used to verify a person’s negative COVID-19 test results and vaccination status. Apps will be key to facilitating travel at scale, the industry has said. Airline staff checking paperwork takes 20 minutes per passenger and is not practical if large numbers of passengers return.
No lockdown but restrictions to be made stricter: Maha health minister
As much as 85 per cent of new patients are asymptomatic and hence most of them have been advised home quarantine, he added.
“Tracking, testing and treatment is being followed. The number of tests has also been increased. Weddings and social gatherings are being restricted,” he said.
Regular booster vaccines are the future in battle with COVID-19 virus, top genome expert says
“We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever,” Peacock told Reuters at the non-profit Wellcome Sanger Institute’s 55-acre campus outside Cambridge.
“We already are tweaking the vaccines to deal with what the virus is doing in terms of evolution – so there are variants arising that have a combination of increased transmissibility and an ability to partially evade our immune response,” she said.
Facebook finds social media users responsible for spreading vaccine doubt
“Public health experts have made it clear that tackling vaccine hesitancy is a top priority in the COVID response, which is why we’ve launched a global campaign that has already connected 2 billion people to reliable information from health experts and remove false claims about COVID and vaccines. This ongoing work will help to inform our efforts,” Facebook representative Dani Lever said.
Nearly 146 tonnes COVID-related bio-medical waste generated daily in country: Govt
Responding to a query on actions being taken for disposal of the waste, the minister said that for ensuring safe disposal of biomedical waste including COVID-19 waste, the CPCB has brought out dedicated guidelines for handling, treatment and disposal of waste generated during treatment, diagnostics and quarantine of COVID-19 patients.
7 states account for 87.73 pc of the new cases reported in a day
With a daily increase of 25,320 in total cases, India’s tally of coronavirus cases has risen from 11,333,728 on Saturday to 11,359,048 – an increase of 0.2%. Death toll has reached 158,607, with 161 fatalities in a day.
Maharashtra registered the highest daily new cases at 15,602, followed by Kerala with 2,035 and Punjab 1,510 new cases.