India has reached the milestone of vaccinating more than 10 million people, second only to the United States globally, after 34 days of Wuhan pneumonia vaccination, the Ministry of health and Family Welfare said today.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced that India has vaccinated 10,187,000 health care workers and frontline counterparts against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19, Wuhan pneumonia) as of 8 a.m. today.
India’s Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan noted that it took only 34 days for India to reach the milestone feat of 10 million people vaccinated, making it the second fastest country in the world, after the United States, to reach the goal of 10 million people vaccinated.
The U.S. took 31 days to reach 10 million vaccinations, starting with the administration of the Wuhan pneumonia vaccine.
Because the Indian government prohibited the 300 million people who received the first wave of free Wuhan pneumonia vaccine from choosing their own vaccine, many Indian health care workers did not have confidence in COVAXIN, a locally developed vaccine approved by the government for emergency use before the Phase III clinical trial report was submitted, and therefore refused to administer it, making it impossible to meet the official vaccination target, which would have been faster than the 10 million people who received the vaccine.
Because many Indian health care workers and frontline workers refuse to be “white mice” for the indigenous vaccine COVAXIN, Health and Welfare Minister Vadhan today publicly appealed through the media for health care workers and frontline workers to come forward and get vaccinated in order for India to overcome this public health challenge.
Wadehan reiterated that the COVAXIN and Covishield vaccines authorized by the government for emergency use and developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca have been tested and certified for safety and immunity, and only 40 cases of adverse reactions have been hospitalized after vaccination so far, accounting for only 0.0004 percent of the overall vaccination population.
He said there have been no deaths from vaccination in India to date, and although 32 deaths have occurred after vaccination, these deaths were later reported to be unrelated to the vaccine, accounting for only 0.0003% of the total number of deaths from vaccination.
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported that eight provinces accounted for 57.4% of the total number of people vaccinated against Wuhan pneumonia, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Northern Province accounting for 10.5% of the total number of people vaccinated across India.
In addition to the Northern Province, other Indian provinces with high numbers of vaccinations include Maharashtra, the province with the worst Epidemic, Gujarat, the Home province of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, and Bihar. and Bihar, etc.
In addition, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India pointed out that seven provinces accounted for 60.85% of the number of people who received the second dose of Wuhan pneumonia vaccine in the country, with Telangana province (Telangana) accounting for the largest number of cases at 12%.
India’s cumulative Wuhan pneumonia cases have so far reached more than 10.96 million, still the second most infected country in the world, with 156,111 deaths and 139,542 active cases still under treatment, with the epidemic slowing down as the number of new cases per day has dropped from a peak of 80,000 or 90,000 to more than 10,000.
However, Maharashtra and Kerala provinces (Kerala) continue to rise, 72% of the active cases requiring treatment in India are from these two provinces, the Indian government has been closely monitoring the situation in these two provinces.
The Maharashtra government has announced another 10-day lockdown in the districts of Amravati and Yavatmal, and the major financial cities of Mumbai and Nagpur have also enacted new measures to prevent the epidemic by locking down a building if there are five cases of infection.
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