India's known coronavirus cases are approaching 12 million, with more than 160,000 deaths
ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava said that both Covishield and Covaxin are effective against the UK and the Brazilian variants
Serum Institute of India assured the Centre that its own anti-coronavirus vaccination programme will not be disturbed because of this supply
However, none of the fatalities have been attributed to the inoculation so far, Rajya Sabha was informed
The state governments and UT administrations should strictly enforce the test-track-treat protocol in all parts of the country, the guidelines said
Union minister Prakash Javadekar said even people without comorbidity and above the age of 45 years, can get vaccinated
The Centre revised the time window within which the 2nd dose of Covishield vaccine can be taken, asking states to administer it between 4-8 weeks ins
More than 6 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been sent to 76 nations, while 4.5 crore doses have been administered to beneficiaries in the country
Altogether, 8,91,881 healthcare workers and 6,12,627 frontline staff have received their first dose and 4,11,500 healthcare and 1,42,588 frontline wor
There are four mutations of the COVID-19 virus in India at present—two UK variants and one South African and Brazilian variant each