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Indians can expect to get their first COVID-19 shot on January 13: Union Health Ministry

January 5, 2021, 5:21 PM

Sneha Shah | New Delhi

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan

Based on the feedback of dry-run, the Union Health Ministry, on Tuesday, announced that the Central government was ready to roll out COVID-19 vaccine, within 10 days from today for emergency use authorisation.

On January 3, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) had given a nod for emergency use of two COVID-19 vaccines Covaxin? and Covishield, in the country.

Indians can expect to get their first COVID-19 shot on January 13, Union Health Ministry Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said during the Health Ministry briefing on COVID-19.

Healthcare workers and frontline workers would not need to register themselves as a beneficiary, as their data is bulk database that has been populated on the Co-WIN vaccine delivery management system in a bulk manner, Bhushan added.

Meanwhile, Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech, on Tuesday, said they will work together to develop, manufacture and supply the COVID-19 vaccines in India and globally.

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In a joint statement on behalf of the two companies, SII CEO Adar Poonawalla and Bharat Biotech Chairman and Managing Director Krishna Ella announced their combined intent to develop, manufacture and supply the COVID-19 vaccines for India and the world.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

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4 years ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

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4 years ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.