India has flattened its COVID-19 graph, says Harsh Vardhan
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NEW DELHI
India has flattened its COVID-19 graph and 146 districts recorded no new circumstances within the final seven days, 18 districts in 14 days, six districts in 21 days and 21 districts in 28 days, stated Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday.
The Minister chaired the twenty third assembly of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 by way of video-conferencing and famous that fewer than 12,000 circumstances had been reported within the final 24 hours and the lively caseload had lowered to simply 1.73 lakh, as per a launch issued by the Ministry.
Dr. Vardhan added that out of the entire lively circumstances, 0.46% had been on ventilators, 2.20% in ICU and three.02% on oxygen help. As many as 165 circumstances of the U.K. variant had been reported and the sufferers had been underneath supervised quarantine and surveillance.
Vaccination train
At the assembly, Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan offered the logistics of the vaccination train and the good points made to date. He stated that 112.4 lakh doses of COVID vaccines had been distributed to States/UTs three days forward of the train. “Additional 115.6 lakh doses to States/UTs were completed on January 20 and 69,000 programme managers, 2.5 lakh vaccinators and 4.4 lakh other team members have been trained so far,” he stated.
Mr. Bhushan added that 93,76,030 healthcare employees and 53,94,098 frontline employees had been registered on the Co-WIN portal.
NITI Aayog member (Health) V.K. Paul knowledgeable that India presently stood at sixth in vaccination protection and would transfer to 3rd place within the subsequent few days.
“Sixteen AEFI [adverse event following immunisation] hospitalisations out of 23 lakh vaccinations so far translates to just 0.0007%, with no case of severe/serious AEFI or death due to vaccination reported so far,” stated Dr. Paul.
The GoM additionally mentioned points concerning balancing home necessities vis-à-vis requests from different nations for Indian vaccines.
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