Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Tuesday that government has never spoken about vaccinating everyone, against COVID, speaking at a press conference in the national capital. He added that it is important to discuss such scientific issues based on factual information only.
Reacting to recent allegation of an adverse reaction complaint by a 40-year-old volunteer for ‘Covishield’, the candidate vaccine being tested by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), the Ministry stated that adverse events are unlikely to impact the delivery timeline of COVID vaccine.
You can track coronavirus cases, deaths and testing rates at the national and State levels here. A list of State Helpline numbers is available as well.
Here are the updates:
Odisha
Odisha reports significant fall in cases
Odisha has reported significant fall in COVID-19 cases, with daily infections dropping below the 500-mark consecutively for past two days. The daily fatalities have also come down…