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The state government has expanded the definition of fully vaccinated people in this decree to include people who work in non-essential industries. This means that those who have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccination and have been inoculated for 14 days can ride on local trains.
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]]>Farah Khan wrote, “I wonder if this happened coz i didn’t put my ‘kaala teeka’… Despite being double vaccinated, & working with mostly, double vaxxed people… I’ve still managed to test positive for Covid… I’ve already informed everyone I came in contact with to get tested. However if I have forgotten someone (because of old age and fading memory) please test yourself. Hoping to recover soon.”
Farah currently features as a judge on the Zee Comedy Show. Recently, she had appeared on Super Dancer 4 and shared a behind-the-scenes video from the sets. It featured Shilpa Shetty, Geeta Kapur, Rithvik Dhanjani, and Paritosh Tripathi. Farah, along with the others, danced on the stage to Touch It by KiDi. On Instagram, sharing the video clip, Farah had written, “#friendsreunion” along with a heart emoji.
In an interview, Farah had said, “It’s a fun, comedy show, and I love being back on sets finally after all these months I am shooting for Comedy Show. I love to laugh and make others laugh too in these testing times.”
Last month, Farah had also attended the reception ceremony of actor Anil Kapoor’s daughter Rhea Kapoor. She also shot a music video, Saath Kya Nibhaoge, with actor Sonu Sood.
She also recreated a song from Main Hoon Na with actor Shah Rukh Khan and Ek Pal Ka Jeena from Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai with Hrithik Roshan. She was last seen in the talk show Pinch, hosted by actor Arbaaz Khan.
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]]>Almost 1,650 healthcare workers from a hospital in Belgium, including men, women, those previously infected with Covid-19 and those uninfected, across age groups, were involved in the study. As many as 688 people received the Moderna vaccine and 959 people were immunised with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The findings of the study were published in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association on August 30. The study showed that among people previously uninfected, those who were inoculated with the Moderna vaccine had an antibody response of 2,881 units/ml while those administered with the Pfizer vaccine had 1,108 units/ml. Similarly, among those previously infected too, those with the Moderna vaccine showed higher antibody presence than those who received the Pfizer vaccine.
The study also show that previously infected participants had higher counts of antibodies than those who were not infected, after receiving both doses of the vaccine. Both the vaccines have demonstrated an efficacy rate of more than 90% in preventing Covid-19 illness.
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]]>“Today we reached an important milestone in our vaccination campaign. Seventy percent of adults in the EU are now fully vaccinated and that means 250 million people are fully immunised,” Von der Leyen said in a video posted online.
Von der Leyen heads the European Commission, which is responsible for ordering vaccines for the EU’s 27 member states, and had already announced in July that 70 percent of the adult population of the EU had received at least one dose.
The global fight against the coronavirus pandemic is now dominated by the battle against the Delta variant, a more contagious version of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
The World Health Organization fears that the pandemic could kill an additional 236,000 people in Europe by December 1 and has expressed concern about the stagnating pace of vaccinations on the continent.
Brussels has stressed the need for the EU to reduce the “worrying gap” in vaccination rates between member states and urged national authorities to be ready for the injection of a new dose to boost immunity if scientific data confirm the need for it.
The rate of fully vaccinated adults is about 20 percent in Bulgaria, 32.8 percent in Romania, 49 percent in Slovakia and 58.1 percent in Poland.
The level is 72.5 percent in France, 70.6 percent in Germany, 76.7 percent in Spain, and 85.5 percent in Ireland, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Edge Media staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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]]>“Restriction is for domestic air travel. However, people travelling from Pakistan from abroad or arriving in Pakistan from a foreign country are exempted from this restriction. It is also not applicable to link flights if these are within 72 hours of arrival or departure,” an NCOC document stated.
Additionally, according to the document, exemptions will also be applicable to partially vaccinated people, foreign nationals, Pakistani nationals with documentary proof they were vaccinated abroad, and patients with clinical conditions.
The National Command and Operation Centre was formed in April 2020 as a principal body governing Pakistan’s national Covid-19 efforts.
Meanwhile, the country’s cumulative Covid-19 infection tally has crossed the 1 million mark, as 2819 more people tested positive in the last 24 hours, taking the overall caseload to 1,004,694, the Ministry of National Health Services said on Sunday. According to the ministry’s data, 45 more people succumbed due to the viral disease in this period, taking the death toll past the 23,000-mark to 23,016.
Also, the latest positivity rate was recorded at 6.32%, which is the highest during what is called Pakistan’s fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which hit the country in the early days of July.
(With PTI inputs)
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]]>Braun said that unvaccinated people may be barred from entering venues like restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums “because the residual risk is too high.”
Braun said getting vaccinated is important to protect against severe disease and because “vaccinated people will definitely have more freedoms than unvaccinated people.”
Braun said that such policies would be legal because “the state has the responsibility to protect the health of its citizens.”
Germany’s vaccine efforts have slowed in recent weeks and that has led to discussions about how to encourage those who haven’t yet received a vaccine to do so. More than 60 per cent of the German population has received at least one dose while over 49 per cent are fully vaccinated.
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