India on Tuesday registered 10,584 new coronavirus cases , taking the overall count to 1,10,16,434. Seventy-eight more deaths pushed the co...
India on Tuesday registered 10,584 new coronavirus cases, taking the overall count to 1,10,16,434. Seventy-eight more deaths pushed the country’s toll to 1,56,463.
The number of active cases stood at 1,47,306, while the number of recoveries reached 1,07,12,665. As many as 1,17,45,552 health care and frontline workers have been vaccinated against the coronavirus so far. Of these, 6,28,696 were inoculated on Monday.
India is using two vaccines, the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine produced by the Serum Institute in Pune, and a government-backed vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech whose efficacy is not entirely yet known.
However, the pharmaceutical firm’s Chairperson and Managing Director Krishna Ella said the interim data on the efficacy of the vaccine will be available in two weeks, The Mint reported. “We moved so fast, but unfortunately we missed the efficacy timepoint,” Ella said on Monday. “Had we done the [phase] 2/3 combined, we would have captured efficacy faster. But anyhow, we should be coming out with efficacy in two weeks with the efficacy point data.”
Amit Shah reviews situation amid rise in cases
After registering a downward trend for days, India is once again witnessing a resurgence of cases, though they are concentrated in a few states. Five states – Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Punjab – registered 86.3% of the...
