Manufacturers ready with increased syringes capacity for COVID-19 vaccination

The All India Syringe and Needle Manufacturers Association (AISNMA) has now written to the Central Government providing an extra capacity of over 350 million syringes per 30 days so as to meet all the demand for mass COVID-19 vaccination by way of home manufacturing. The Association mentioned that this extra capacity has already been constructed up by its members, having noticed the essential scarcity of masks and PPE (private safety tools) kits confronted by India and different international locations all over the world earlier this 12 months.

AISNMA is the only nodal affiliation for syringe producers in India and has 19 members situated throughout the nation.

Meanwhile, India has reported 481 COVID-19 case fatalities up to now 24 hours, of which 74.22% are concentrated in ten States/UTs, with Delhi registering 109 deaths, adopted by West Bengal (49) and Uttar Pradesh (33), in keeping with knowledge launched by the Health Ministry on Wednesday.

It added that 44,376 new confirmed instances had been recorded within the final 24 hours, once more with Delhi reporting the very best with 6,224 instances, adopted by Maharashtra which recorded 5,439 new instances, whereas Kerala reported 5,420 instances.

India’s current lively caseload is 4,44,746 and the restoration price continues to be above 93%. In the final 24 hours, the nation registered 37,816 new recoveries taking the whole recovered instances to 86,42,771.

“The gap between recovered and active cases is steadily increasing and presently stands at 81,98,025. 77.53% of the new recoveries are contributed by ten States/UTs. Kerala leads the tally with 5,149 persons recovering from COVID followed by Delhi which reported 4,943 recoveries, while Maharashtra registered another 4,086 new recoveries in the last 24 hours,” mentioned the discharge.

Giving particulars of the assessments carried out, the Ministry mentioned that 11,59,032 COVID-19 assessments had been carried out within the final 24 hours. “The cumulative positivity rate has been steadily falling and has touched 6.84% today. Sustained and progressive expansion in testing infrastructure has played a crucial role in the steep rise of testing numbers. With 2,138 testing labs in the country including 1,167 government laboratories and 971 private laboratories, the daily testing capacity has got a substantial boost. As a result of this, tests per million per day in India is five times more than the WHO standard,” mentioned the Ministry.