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South Africa to pay $5.25 a dose for AstraZeneca vaccine from India’s SII
The SII doses are intended for South Africa’s frontline healthcare workers, who have been under huge strain during a second wave of coronavirus infections. They are due to start arriving before the end of the month, before the AU doses become available from March.
British Indian survey finds reluctance in community towards COVID-19 vaccines
Despite being one of the hardest hit communities by COVID-19, British Indians show reluctance in taking a vaccine. Much of this reluctance stems from the community saying they do not feel informed enough about the vaccine, its benefits and its impact, says the report entitled Vaccines, The Pandemic and British Indians’.
9.99 lakh healthcare workers received vaccine shots till Thursday 6 pm: Health Ministry
As far as adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) are concerned, he said there was one hospitalisation in Rajasthan.”A person who was vaccinated on January 16 and developed intracranial hemorrhage on January 20 has been admitted to Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital, Udaipur in Rajasthan and it is not related to vaccination. Further no death has been reported today,” Agnani said.
New China swine fever strains point to unlicensed vaccines
Two new strains of African swine fever have infected more than 1,000 sows on several farms owned by New Hope Liuhe, China’s fourth-largest producer, as well as pigs being fattened for the firm by contract farmers, said Yan Zhichun, the company’s chief science officer.
Nasal Covid-19 vaccine will be easy to give to children: AIIMS director
“It (coronavirus infection) is very mild in children but they are infectious. They can spread the disease.”
“The vaccines that have come are not approved for children because there have been no studies conducted on children but this (vaccination) is a very important step and trials are being done,” he said.
Chinese scientists develop gene therapy which could delay ageing
The method, detailed in a paper in the Science Translational Medicine journal earlier this month, involves inactivating a gene called kat7 which the scientists found to be a key contributor to cellular ageing.
The specific therapy they used and the results were a world first, said co-supervisor of the project Professor Qu Jing, 40, a specialist in ageing and regenerative medicine from the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Israel includes pregnant women on Covid-19 vaccines priority list
Nachman Ash, the national coordinator on the pandemic said that despite the absence of research into the vaccination of pregnant women, “when looking at the biological logic, we assess that there is no risk to the pregnancy, no risk to the foetus”.
Joe Biden nominates transgender woman as assistant health secretary of US: Report
“Dr Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic – no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability – and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond,” Biden said in a statement.
Telangana: Health worker dies after jab, death not due to it: Official
“Preliminary findings suggest that the death seems to be unrelated to vaccination,” state Director of Public Health G Srinivasa Rao said in a press release
COVID-19 active caseload further dips to 1.81 per cent of total cases
”Following the national trend of consistent decline in the active cases, 17 states and UTs have cases per million population lower than the national average. India’s cases per million population stand at 7,689,” the ministry said.
Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and West Bengal account for 73 per cent of the total active cases in the country.