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20 Mar

India’s daily COVID-19 cases drop below 2,000 mark

India continues to witness a declining trend with daily infections dropping below the 2,000 mark on Sunday. According to the Union health ministry’s updated data on Sunday morning, India has reported 1,761 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

There has been a sustained fall in the weekly and daily Positivity Rates too. The weekly Positivity Rate in the country currently stands at 0.41% and the daily positivity rate is also reported to be 0.41%.

The active caseload declined to 26,240. Total 3,196 people recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, increasing the total number to 4,24,65,122. The recovery rate has also improved to 98.74 per cent.

Meanwhile, India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 181.21 crores.  Vaccination for the age group 12-14 years was started on 16 March, 2022. So far, more than 17 lakh (17,36,464) adolescents have been administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

Precaution doses have been given to 2,17,33,502 people so far. Of these, 43,58,282 were given to healthcare workers, 66,63,768 to frontline workers, and 1,07,11,452 to people above the age of 60 years.

In the age group of 15-18 years, 5,62,03,581 children have taken the first dose and 3,54,81,792 have taken the second dose of vaccination.

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20 Mar

‘Pandemic Not Over’: WHO Warns Against ‘Huge Amount of Misinformation’ Around COVID-19

The World Health Organization on Saturday expressed concern about the spread of misinformation about the pandemic. They said that the misinformation about the pandemic is creating confusion among people. The concern comes as in the last week there was an 8% increase in cases.

WHO’s COVID-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove said that there are misinformations that the pandemic is over or that Omicron is the last variant of Covid-19 that we will have to deal with.

“We have huge amounts of misinformation that’s out there. The misinformation that Omicron is mild. Misinformation that the pandemic is over. Misinformation that this is the last variant that we will have to deal with. This is really causing a lot of confusion,” said Ms. Kerkhove.

Talking about Omicron she said that COVID-19 vaccines remain incredibly effective at preventing severe disease and death, including against Omicron.

She further said that with a huge number of Covid cases there will be an increase in hospitalizations and that will result in increased deaths, primarily in people not vaccinated.

“We do not see changes in severity of BA.2 compared to BA.1 at population levels. However, with huge numbers of cases, you will see an increase in hospitalizations & that in turn has translated into increased deaths… primarily in people not vaxxed or partially vaxxed,” she said.

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17 Mar

Over 3 lakh children in 12-14 age group vaccinated on first day

According to the Union health ministry’s updated data on Thursday morning over 3 lakh children between 12 and 14 years have received their first shot of Covid vaccine taking the total doses administered in the country to over 180.80 crores.

The vaccination started on Wednesday and the vaccine which is being administered to the 12 and 14 years children is Corbevax two doses of which are to be administered 28 days apart.

More than 1.05 crore precaution doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to those aged above 60 years.

On Monday (14 March) the Health Ministry announced plans to expand the programme further to include the 12-14-year age group. The centre also announced that it has decided to remove the condition of co-morbidity for COVID19 Precaution Dose for population over 60 years. With this the entire population above 60 years of age will be eligible for precaution doses of COVID19 vaccine.

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