Coronavirus Live Updates: Four More COVID-19 Vaccines Being Developed, Says Centre
Live Updates: 110 lakh doses of Covishield are being procured at Rs 200 per dose. (File)
New Delhi:
The first stage of the rollout of the vaccines in opposition to the coronavirus started with Serum Institute of India – the producer of Oxford University’s Covishield – delivery out its first lot of vials. The Union Health Ministry mentioned the inoculation programme, billed because the world’s largest, is on monitor.
Four extra COVID-19 vaccines are being developed and their producers could method the drug controller for emergency use authorisation, the Health Ministry. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan mentioned Zydus Cadila, Sputnik V, Biological E and Gennova are different vaccines which can be presently in a complicated medical trials stage in India. “In the coming days you may see some of these vaccines too approaching the drug controller for emergency use authorisation,” Mr Bhushan mentioned.
There will likely be a spot of 28 days between two doses of COVID-19 vaccine and its effectiveness will start 14 days after the second dose, the Health Ministry mentioned. Mr Bhushan mentioned vaccine effectiveness will likely be seen solely after 14 days. “So we urge people to keep following Covid-appropriate behaviour,” he mentioned.
According to the Health Ministry, 110 lakh doses of Covishield are being procured at Rs 200 per dose (excluding taxes). 55 lakh doses of Covaxin — developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech — are additionally being procured. Both these vaccines have been authorized by the nation’s drug regulator for restricted emergency use. Bharat Biotech is charging Rs 295 per dose for 38.5 lakh doses. The firm, which has partnered with the Indian Council of Medical Research for the vaccine, will give 16.5 lakh doses to the centre freed from value.
The centre has acquired 54,72,000 doses of vaccines in opposition to the coronavirus to this point, the Health Ministry mentioned.
Here are the LIVE updates:
COVID-19 vaccine transportation from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) commenced on Wednesday with finances service GoAir airlifting 2,400 vials of Covishield to Goa.
The Wadia Group-owned no-frills airline has scheduled flights carrying vaccines to Lucknow, Cochin and Chandigarh as effectively, moreover Goa, throughout the day, a GoAir spokesperson advised PTI.
GoAir’s first flight carrying 2,400 vials (24,000 doses) of Covishield vaccine took off at 5.20 am and reached Goa at 6.30 am, the spokesperson mentioned.
An enormous pan-India inoculation drive in opposition to COVID-19 was set in course of on Tuesday with greater than 56 lakh doses of the Covishield vaccine leaving Pune for 13 cities throughout the nation, 4 days earlier than the vaccinations are scheduled to start on January 16.
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Brazil registered 1,110 deaths from COVID-19 prior to now 24 hours, bringing the nationwide deaths to 204,690, the Ministry of Health introduced on Tuesday.
The nation confirmed 64,025 new circumstances, taking the nationwide rely to eight,195,637, it added.
The state of Sao Paulo, essentially the most populous within the nation and likewise essentially the most affected space, reported 1,561,844 circumstances and 48,662 deaths in whole, adopted by Rio de Janeiro, with 465,150 circumstances and 26,976 deaths from the virus.
The Delhi Police has made ample safety preparations within the metropolis for the sleek transportation of COVID-19 vaccines when the countrywide vaccination roll-out will start later this week, officers mentioned on Tuesday.
The first batch of Covishield vaccine containing 2.64 lakh doses reached Delhi”s central storage facility at Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital (RGSSH) on Tuesday amid excessive safety, they mentioned.
Special Commissioner of Police (Operations and Licensing) Muktesh Chander mentioned the safety power ensured easy transportation of vaccines from the airport to RGSSH the place ample police preparations have been made.
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Tuesday that he had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to permit political get together leaders, ministers and legislators to be vaccinated within the first part of the nationwide inoculation drive in opposition to Covid-19.
“I have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to allow political party leaders, Ministers, and legislators to be vaccinated in the first phase and set an example so that the people can have confidence,” Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy mentioned.
The Chinese-developed Coronavac Covid-19 vaccine has demonstrated a 50 p.c efficacy following assessments in Brazil, the group in control of its manufacturing within the South American nation mentioned. Coronavac has been given to frontline well being care employees in shut contact with coronavirus sufferers.
The Butantan Institute repeated its declare from final week that the vaccine is 78 p.c efficient in delicate circumstances that wanted remedy and confirmed one hundred pc efficacy in average to critical circumstances. “It’s a safe, effective vaccine that ticks all the boxes to justify its use in an emergency,” mentioned Butantan director Dimas Covas.
The Delhi Police has made ample safety preparations within the metropolis for the sleek transportation of COVID-19 vaccines when the countrywide vaccination roll-out will start later this week, officers mentioned.
The first batch of Covishield vaccine containing 2.64 lakh doses reached Delhi’s central storage facility at Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital (RGSSH) on Tuesday amid excessive safety, they mentioned.
Special Commissioner of Police (Operations and Licensing) Muktesh Chander mentioned the safety power ensured easy transportation of vaccines from the airport to RGSSH the place ample police preparations have been made.
British authorities have needed to arrange a short lived morgues in some areas after native hospital mortuaries ran out of area attributable to a surge in deaths attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Britain has reported file ranges of deaths and new infections in the previous few weeks, fuelled by a brand new variant of the coronavirus which has prompted a surge in circumstances, particularly in London and southeast England.
In Surrey, to the south of London, the county’s hospital mortuaries have reached their 600 capability, that means native authorities have needed to begin utilizing a short lived morgue.
