Medical staff at a health center in New Delhi, India, vaccinate a man against the Covid-19 virus, April 6, 2021.
Indian media revealed Friday (9) that 37 doctors at a New Delhi hospital who had received two doses of the vaccine were recently tested and found to still be infected with the Chinese Communist virus (COVID-19). Five of them have been hospitalized for more severe symptoms. However, the media did not reveal which vaccine the doctors had received in the first place.
According to India Today and other Indian media, at least 37 doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi have recently been confirmed to have contracted the disease, all of whom are frontline medical staff who treat patients with the disease. The remaining 32 people with milder symptoms have been quarantined at home.
The Indian media revealed that frontline health care workers have been vaccinated against Communist pneumonia since January 16 this year, and the doctors at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital who were diagnosed had received two doses of the vaccine. However, the Indian media did not disclose which vaccine these doctors received.
According to public information, there are two types of vaccines available in India: Covishield, a vaccine developed by Oxford University in collaboration with AstraZeneca and produced by the Serum Institute of India; and Bharat Biotech. Both vaccines are said to be about 81 percent effective in protecting against the disease.
Official statistics released Friday at 8 a.m. showed that the number of confirmed cases of CCHF in India exceeded 130,000 in the past 24 hours, a new record high for the country and the third time this week that the number of confirmed cases in a single day exceeded 100,000.
To date, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in India has reached 13,191,049, with a cumulative total of 168,373 deaths due to the disease.
On Thursday evening, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after a video conference with provincial and municipal chiefs, ruled out a second national lockdown and decided to adopt a curfew and set up micro-exclusion zones and intensify detection, tracing and isolation to control the epidemic in order to avoid an overly serious impact on the country’s economy.
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