9.48 am: India registers 16,504 new coronavirus cases on Monday, taking the tally to 1,03,40,469. The country’s toll rises by 214 to 1,49...
9.48 am: India registers 16,504 new coronavirus cases on Monday, taking the tally to 1,03,40,469. The country’s toll rises by 214 to 1,49,649. The country’s active cases stood at 2,43,953, while the recoveries reached 99,46,867.
9.25 am: Sixty-five people have been arrested from two illegal hookah bars in Delhi’s Rohini after police raids, reports NDTV. The police found coronavirus-related restrictions violated at the bars.
9.19 am: The United States government is considering giving some people half the dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine to speed up vaccinations, reports Reuters, citing the head of the federal vaccine programme.
“We know that for the Moderna vaccine, giving half of the dose to people between the ages of 18 and 55, two doses, half the dose, which means exactly achieving the objective of immunizing double the number of people with the doses we have,” says Moncef Slaoui, head of Operation Warp Speed.
9.15 am: Dr Gagandeep Kang, professor of microbiology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, tells CNBC-TV18 that she cannot understand the basis on which Covaxin has been approved for emergency use in the country.
'I don't think we should be approving a vaccine that has no efficacy data,' says Dr Gagandeep Kang (@GKangInd) as India grants Emergency Use Approval to @BharatBiotech vaccine which is still in Phase 3 trials.@ShereenBhan #Sanjeevani #AShotOfLife pic.twitter.com/oyzyamBzQF
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