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Feb 25, 2021 09:15 PM IST From March 1, the COVID-19 vaccination will be extended to people aged 60 years and above and those aged above 45 years with comorbidities, Health Ministry stated.
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Feb 24, 2021 01:42 PM IST The central teams have been deputed to Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.
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Feb 23, 2021 03:22 PM IST A total of 10,584 new infections and 13,255 recoveries were recorded in a span of 24 hours, leading to a net decline of 2,749 cases in the total active caseload, Health Ministry said.
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Feb 22, 2021 03:15 PM IST Progressive countrywide expansion in testing infrastructure has played a crucial role in the steep rise of testing numbers, the health ministry underlined.
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Feb 20, 2021 02:10 PM IST In a statement, the ministry said in the last seven days, Chhattisgarh has also seen a rise in daily active new cases. In the last 24 hours, 259 daily new cases have been reported, it said.
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Feb 18, 2021 01:03 PM IST A total of 94,22,228 vaccine doses have been given to beneficiaries through 1,99,305 sessions till 8 am on February 18, as per the provisional report.
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Feb 17, 2021 02:19 PM IST India's cumulative recoveries have been showing a progressive increment on a daily basis, the health ministry said.
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Feb 15, 2021 09:31 PM IST As of February 13, only 7,668 out of the over 1,91,000 healthcare workers who had received their first COVID-19 vaccine shot on January 16 – the first day of India’s vaccination drive - turned up for the second dose of the vaccine.
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Feb 15, 2021 06:18 PM IST Health Minister Harsh Vardhan further said that India will be supplying vaccines to 20-25 other countries.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:55 PM IST The case fatality rate, "one of the lowest in the world", is on a constant decline since October 1, 2020, the ministry stressed.
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Feb 12, 2021 06:03 PM IST The distribution of daily deaths among states and union territories also reflects a significant decline with 18 states and UTs not reporting any new deaths in a span of 24 hours. Thirteen states and UTs have reported between 1-5 new deaths, it highlighted.
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Feb 10, 2021 11:30 AM IST The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,05,61,608 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 97.27 percent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.43 percent.
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Feb 09, 2021 12:06 PM IST The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,05,48,521 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 97.25 percent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.43 percent.
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Feb 08, 2021 06:20 PM IST Speaking on the COVID-19 situation, Harsh Vardhan said India has one of the highest recovery rates in the world.
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Feb 07, 2021 10:36 PM IST India is now the third topmost country with the highest doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered after the US and the UK.
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Feb 05, 2021 07:28 PM IST Health Minister Harsh Vardhan added that the vaccination drive for frontline workers has begun this week.
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Feb 04, 2021 02:15 PM IST In a span of 24 hours, 3,10,604 people were vaccinated across 8,041 sessions, it said, adding that 84,617 sessions have been conducted so far.
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Feb 02, 2021 01:33 PM IST Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey was responding to a question on the reasons for exponential multiplication of coronavirus cases in the country and whether there was a wrong approach at the initial stage by the government in focusing on testing, contact tracing, isolation and quarantine management.
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Jan 28, 2021 07:00 PM IST Addressing a press conference, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that India was the fastest country to reach 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations in six days, while the US took 10 days, Spain 12, Israel 14, the UK 18, Italy 19, Germany 20 and UAE 27 days.
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Jan 26, 2021 07:56 PM IST In a statement, the ministry said active cases declined by 6,916 in a 24-hour period.
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Jan 25, 2021 08:27 PM IST On the tenth day of India's coronavirus vaccination drive, 3,34,679 beneficiaries were vaccinated till 7.10 pm on January 25 across 7,171 sessions.
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Jan 24, 2021 08:13 PM IST The under-five mortality rate among girls – which is a strong indicator of gender discrimination -- has also declined from 45 in 2015 to 36 in 2018.
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Jan 24, 2021 03:06 PM IST India took only 6 days to roll out one million vaccine doses. This count is higher than countries like the US and the UK. The UK took 18 days whereas USA took 10 days to reach the one million mark, the ministry highlighted.
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Jan 23, 2021 09:40 PM IST So far, 11 COVID-19 vaccine beneficiaries have required hospitalisation post-vaccination; the hospitalisation percentage against vaccination is currently 0.0007 percent in India.
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Jan 21, 2021 08:53 PM IST The total number of beneficiaries who have been vaccinated on Thursday till 6 pm include 15,507 in Andhra Pradesh, 15,798 in Bihar, 10,266 in Kerala, 16,103 in Karnataka, 7,117 in Madhya Pradesh, 6,497 in Tamil Nadu, 5,128 in Delhi, 12,212 in Gujarat and 7,187 in West Bengal, according to the provisional report.