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COVID-19 vaccination: Nearly 14 lakh beneficiaries inoculated
Senior government functionaries on Friday told a parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare that India has no plan to vaccinate the entire country against coronavirus as yet and that covering 50% to 60% of the country’s population should be enough to safeguard the population.
Government’s principal scientific adviser, Vijay Raghavan, and AIIMS director, Randeep Guleria, told the panel that India does not see any foreseeable possibility of a vaccine shortage.
Japan coronavirus vaccination uncertainty casts doubts over Olympics
Many Japanese have a vague unease about vaccines, said Dr. Takashi Nakano, a Kawasaki Medical School professor and vaccine expert. If something (negative) happens after inoculation, people tend to think it’s because of the vaccine, and that’s the image stuck in their mind for a long time.
The history of vaccine mistrust in Japan dates back to 1948, when dozens of babies died after getting a faulty diphtheria vaccine. In 1989, cases of aseptic meningitis in children who received a combined vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, prompted lawsuits against the government, forcing it to scrap the mix four years later.
Three govt agencies launch probe in Serum Institute fire causing Rs 1000 cr losses
“The supply of COVID-19 vaccine will not be affected due to the fire. No actual vaccine was being made at that facility. We were lucky that the incident happened in a different building. The extent of the financial damage is more than Rs 1,000 crores,” Poonawalla said while addressing a press conference.
WHO says deal with Pfizer to allow poor countries to start vaccinating in February
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the 40 million doses announced on Friday would be sold on a non-profit basis. He described it as an initial agreement and said more doses could be sold through the COVAX programme in future.
Cash for Covid? UK says no decision on reported plan for positive tests
Currently, only some people receiving welfare benefits receive a 500 pound payment if they are told to self-isolate, but according to an official policy paper seen by the Guardian newspaper and others, ministers were looking at making this a universal payment to all who tested positive.
This would cost up to 453 million pounds a week, 12 times the cost of the current system, the Guardian said.
New online tool can calculate COVID-19 transmission risk in poorly-ventilated places
Scientists agree that the vast majority of Covid-19 cases are spread through indoor transmission, whether via aerosols or droplets.The researchers noted that it only takes a matter of seconds for aerosols to spread over two meters when masks are not worn, implying that physical distancing in the absence of ventilation is not sufficient to provide safety for long exposure times.
Amazon to open pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Seattle headquarters
The move came a day after Reuters reported that Amazon had offered to help with the United States’ efforts involving the COVID-19 vaccine, citing a letter addressed to President Joe Biden.
The State currently allows people aged 65 and older and people 50 and older living in a multi-generational household to get vaccinated. It has yet to grant doses for the vaccination of warehouse employees, such as Amazon’s.
COVID-19: India records 14,545 new cases
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,02,83,708 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate of 96.78 per cent,while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44 per cent
The COVID-19 active caseload remained below 2 lakh for the third consecutive day. There are 1,88,688 active coronavirus infections in the country which comprise1.78 per cent of the total caseload,the data stated.
Biden launches ”100 days mask challenge”; makes COVID-19 test, quarantine mandatory for people entering US
The death toll will likely top 5,00,000 next month, he said, adding that the cases will continue to mount.
“Our national plan launches a full-scale wartime effort to address the supply shortages by ramping up production and protective equipment, syringes, needles, you name it. And when I say wartime, people look at me like wartime? Well, as I said last night, 4,00,000 Americans have died. That”s more than World War II… this is a wartime undertaking,” he said.
WHO expects 100 million global Covid-19 cases by January end
The WHO chief also stressed that vaccines complement rather than replace fundamental public health measures that individuals, communities and governments must take to stop the spread of Covid-19, which is especially important in the face of rapidly-spreading variants.