Here are the top updates from Tuesday: India has likely entered “some sort of stage of endemicity” of the coronavirus pandemic, World He...
Here are the top updates from Tuesday:
- India has likely entered “some sort of stage of endemicity” of the coronavirus pandemic, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan told The Wire in an interview. She said that in this stage while fluctuations in the number of cases would continue, the situation was unlikely to be like the second wave of the coronavirus in April to May. The United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines an endemic as the “constant presence and/or usual prevalence of a disease or infectious agent in a population within a geographic area”.
- India registered 25,467 new coronavirus cases, pushing the country’s infection tally to 3,24,74,773 since the pandemic broke out in January 2020. With 354 deaths, the toll climbed to 4,35,110.
- The health ministry said those arriving in the country after being evacuated from Afghanistan would have to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine at the Indo-Tibetan Border Police’s Chhawla camp near Delhi, ANI reported.
- Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that Indians can now book slots for their Covid-19 vaccination through WhatsApp. Beneficiaries need to type “Book Slot” and send the message to the MyGov Corona Helpdesk number: 9013151515. They would then receive a one-time password, following which the beneficiaries need to follow instructions from a chatbot.
- India’s first mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate HGCO19, produced...
