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]]>As a sign of their dedication to containing the epidemic as soon as possible, countries in the area are making extraordinary trying to attain as many people as possible with the life-saving Covid-19 vaccine.
Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia, said, “We must maintain these efforts and execute public health and social measures with rigor.”
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]]>The plan, if implemented, would be the first publicly announced mix and match of a Chinese vaccine and a Western-developed shot.
The move aims to increase protection against highly transmissible variants, Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters.
This is to improve protection against the Delta variant and build high level of immunity against the disease,” Health Minister Anutin said, referring to the variant first detected in Indonesia.
Thailand and neighbours like Indonesia have reported breakthrough infections among medical and frontline workers inoculated with Sinovac’s inactivated virus vaccine.
The majority of Thailand’s medical and frontline workers were given Sinovac’s shots after February with the viral vector vaccine from AstraZeneca AZN.L arriving in June.
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]]>He said that of the 749 Covid deaths in Meghalaya – the state with second highest mortality rate of 1.68 per cent in the region after Nagaland (1.97 per cent) – at least 691 people were not vaccinated.
The Chief Minister’s statement comes as vaccination hesitancy is affecting the state’s inoculation coverage.
The Ministry of Health and Family welfare had on Wednesday said Meghalaya has inoculated only 74 percent of its healthcare workers with the first dose and only 48 percent people in the category have received their second dose. The state has also performed poorly in terms of vaccinating its frontline workers, those above 45 and those above 18.
So far, nearly eight lakh people have been vaccinated in Meghalaya, including both the first and the second dose.
There have been instances of vaccine hesitancy in several parts of Meghalaya where people aren’t getting vaccinated fearing side effects. Several attempts of the government to spread awareness among people had no major effect so far.
Chief Minister Sangma lamented that there are some elected representatives who have been openly criticizing the vaccination drive.
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]]>It has been observed that people who have received both the vaccine jabs are not wearing masks. At today’s meeting, an example came before us of a person who contracted Covid-19 after taking both the doses and sadly passed away. Hence, it’s important that even those who have got both vaccine doses continue to wear masks in public places. This is what our medical task force is telling us. People have to continue to wear masks, sanitise their hands and observe social distancing,” said Pawar, the guardian minister of Pune district.
Pawar said that while Pune district has crossed the landmark of administering 50 lakh vaccine doses, all the vaccine centres have been closed for the last two days because of unavailability of vaccines. “We are prepared to administer more vaccines at a high rate but the supply is not enough from the central government. We were earlier told by the Union government that vaccine supply will be increased by the end of June. However, the situation has not improved as of yet,” he said.
Two vaccines are being produced in the country but the speed of production is not as per the demand. The two vaccines from abroad – Sputnik and Moderna – have been allowed but for some reasons they are not available in requisite quantities. Until supply is fixed, the vaccination process will continue to slow down,” said Pawar.
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]]>There were no serious adverse events or fatalities recorded throughout the trials, which included over 10,000 people in Turkey. The majority of the responses were minor, such as tiredness and discomfort at the injection site, and occurred within seven days following the injection.
CoronaVac has been licenced for use in 22 countries, notably Thailand, Brazil, Uruguay, Ukraine, and Albania, and has been in phase 3 testing in Brazil, Indonesia, Chile, and Turkey since mid-2020.
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