The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that the risk of dying due to vaccination was negligible as compared to that of dying because of...
- The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that the risk of dying due to vaccination was negligible as compared to that of dying because of the infection, reported PTI. This came after the National AEFI Committee studying Covid-19 vaccines confirmed that a 68-year-old man died due to anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction) after being vaccinated on March 8.
- India recorded 60,471 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday morning, taking its overall tally to 2,95,70,881 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020. The toll rose by 2,726 to to 3,77,031. This is the lowest single-day rise in cases since March 31. The number of active cases stayed below 10 lakh for the second day in a row. India now has 9,13,378 active cases.
- As daily coronavirus cases continue to decline, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chandigarh on Tuesday eased restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the infection.
- Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday eased coronavirus-induced restrictions in the state for local bodies with less than 8% test positivity rate. This came a day after he announced that decentralised containment strategies would be devised, depending on the level of disease transmission in each local body.
- The Centre said slightly more number of people under 20 years of age were affected in the second wave than...
