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For the past 31 days, the daily increase in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000, and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for the past 134 days. The active cases account for 0.42 percent of all infections, the lowest since March 2020, according to the ministry, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.24 percent, the highest since March 2020.
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]]>The study was only conducted on 18 people of Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharth Nagar, who by mistake received two doses of two separate vaccines. According to the finding of the study which is yet to be peer-reviewed immunisation with a combination of an adenovirus vector platform-based vaccine, followed by inactivated whole virus vaccine was not only safe but also elicited better immunogenicity.
Covishield, manufactured by Pune’s Serum Institute of India, is the adenovirus vector platform-based vaccine and Covaxin, developed and manufactured by Bharat Biotech and the ICMR, is the whole virus vaccine. Covishield and Covaxin belong to two different types.
The study titled ‘Serendipitous Covid-19 Vaccine-Mix in Uttar Pradesh, India: Safety and Immunogenicity Assessment of a Heterologous Regime’ has been uploaded on medRxiv. Under this study, 18 people received two doses of two different vaccines, the reaction of which was compared to 40 receipients of two doses of Covishield and 40 recipients of two doses of Covaxin, news agency PTI reported. The study duration was from May to June 2021, it said.
Mixing of vaccines is being discussed globally all studies are in favour of mixing two vaccines to increase the protection against future infection. The subject expert committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation has in July recommended a trial of mixing Covishield and Covaxin, which will be conducted by the Christian Medical College in Vellore on 300 healthy volunteers.
While that will be a proper clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness of the cocktail of Covishield and Covaxin, the ICMR’s study was based on the goof-up that took place in May. There was no immediate adverse impact of the mix-up of the beneficiaries. Now, further study has revealed that the mix-up has actually worked in favour of protection as these people have more protection than those who have received two shots of the same vaccine.
The issue of mixing vaccines is sensitive as World Health Organization has warned that individuals should not decide on mixing vaccines. Niti Aayog member (health) Dr VK Paul had earlier said that theoretically there is no problem in mixing two vaccines as the second dose in such a case will work as a booster shot. But as the government started its vaccination drive on January 16, it asked health workers to exercise extreme caution to make sure that the beneficiaries receive the second shot of the same vaccine that they received as their first shots.
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]]>In response to a question about increasing rape cases and the state’s plans to reduce crime against women, commission member Meena Kumari told reporters “girls should not be given mobile phones” because they “talk with boys and later run away with them”.She also called for round-the-clock policing of young women.
I appeal to parents not to give mobile phones to daughters… if they do, phones should be checked regularly. All this (crime against women) is due to negligence by mothers,” she told reporters.
“We, as parents and society, have to put a check on our daughters… always see where they are going, and which boys they are sitting with. We have to check their mobile phones… girls will keep talking on their phone and then they elope,” she said.
After her comments triggered a row, Meena Kumari issued a clarification.
“My statement has been misinterpreted. What I said was that parents should check whether their children are using mobile phones for studies or other purposes. I never said that if girls use phones they will run away with boys,” she was quoted by news agency ANI.
Video snippets of Ms Kumar’s first quote have been widely shared online, with Swati Maliwal, the Chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women, among the most forceful critics.
“No ma’am, a phone in a girl’s hand is not a reason for rape. The reason for rape is a bad social system that affects the mindset of criminals. The Prime Minister is requested to sensitive all Women’s Commission members…” Ms Maliwal tweeted.
Send them to the Delhi Commission for one day… to see how we work. We will teach them,” she added
Meena Kumari’s comment comes months after a member of the National Commission for Women, Chandramukhi Devi, said the gangrape and murder of a 50-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun could have been avoided if she had not gone out in the evening.
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]]>According to the information, Mamta Banerjee has a temporary plaster on her left ankle. She will be under strict supervision for the next 48 hours. Today, his CT scan can be done during the day. The state government formed a nine-member team to treat Mamata Banerjee and the doctors also did an X-ray of the Chief Minister on Wednesday evening while going to the hospital from Nandigram.
TMC says that it will complain about the incident to the Election Commission. Doctors say that Mamta Banerjee is scared because of the accident. Due to this, they have been kept under strict supervision. After the injury, Mamata Banerjee told the media, ‘I was inside my car and was greeting people.
Meanwhile, they came and suddenly closed the gate of my car. It hurt my leg. There were many people, but 4-5 people did so intentionally. It is definitely a conspiracy. ‘ Even though Mamata Banerjee had not named any party, the opposition parties have called these allegations of Mamta a drama.
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]]>According to the report, the total number of corona active cases in the country has increased to about 1,89,226.
Apart from this, the rate of recovery of patients in the country is 96.92 percent, while the death rate of corona remains at 1.40 percent.According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a total of 22 crore 42 lakh 58 thousand 293 sample tests have been done for corona virus in India till March 10, of which 7,78,414 samples have been tested on Wednesday.
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