Coronavirus India lockdown day 252 live updates | 59% will not rush to take COVID-19 vaccine, finds survey

Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan stated on Tuesday that authorities has by no means spoken about vaccinating everybody, towards COVID, talking at a press convention within the nationwide capital. He added that it is vital to focus on such scientific points primarily based on factual info solely.

Reacting to current allegation of an adversarial response grievance by a 40-year-old volunteer for ‘Covishield’, the candidate vaccine being examined by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), the Ministry said that adversarial occasions are unlikely to affect the supply timeline of COVID vaccine.

You can monitor coronavirus instances, deaths and testing charges on the nationwide and State ranges right here. An inventory of State Helpline numbers is out there as effectively.

Here are the updates:

Chennai

59% will not rush to take COVID-19 vaccine: survey

In a survey, 59% have stated that they’d not rush to take a COVID-19 vaccine, even when it was out there within the close to future.

LocalCircles, a group social media platform, carried out a survey between October 15 and 20 and located that 61% expressed hesitancy in getting the vaccine. This was earlier than any of the vaccines have been introduced, in accordance to a press launch.

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New Delhi

EU plans vaccines as regulator units approval deadline

European international locations have been on Tuesday given a transparent timeframe for the beginning of their vaccination programmes after the bloc’s medicines regulator stated it might determine by December 29 whether or not to grant emergency approval for the primary COVID-19 jabs.

France plans to prioritise probably the most fragile and uncovered teams in early 2021, adopted by a second marketing campaign for the remainder of the inhabitants between April and June, President Emmanuel Macron introduced.

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