Covid-19 in India: Daily vaccinations plunge by 35 per cent

As the vaccine mismanagement and the resultant shortage continue the daily vaccination has come down to 980 per million people as of May 23 down from 1455 per million a week earlier down over 35 per cent according to a report The world average is 3564 per millionThe only saving grace is the continuing decline in the pandemic caseload Crisil said in the report This means that the infections may have crossed the peak on May 6 when the country had reported 414 lakh cases Daily new cases now average 25 lakh down from 33 lakh in the week ended May 16More significantly as of Tuesday the daily caseload has fallen below the 2lakh mark as in the past 24 hours there were only 196427 new cases The death toll climbed to 307231 with 3511 fresh fatalitiesA medic administers a dose of COVID19 vaccine to a woman in Srinagar on Tuesday PicPTIThough Maharashtra Gujarat and Delhi have vaccinated the highest proportion of their population the pace of vaccination has declined further in May in these states Vaccination will further slow down as the availability of the vaccine is going to take timeDr Gagandeep Kang a top virologist said India should import more Covid19 vaccines But ldquoglobally there is a shortage of vaccines so the only vaccines available are the Russian and the Chinese onesrdquo she addedDr Kang professor of Microbiology at Christian Medical College in Vellore added that deaths are expected to decline in two weeks as the number of cases is stabilisingldquoWe have to decide which one are we willing to buy and get those in at least till the Indian companies start to ramp up production of their vaccines I think the government should be doing everything that it can to make sure that more doses are available In India if the Indian companies couldnrsquot ramp up at least as a bridge till the new companies start production of vaccines we should import vaccinesrdquo she saidFlag tweets of 11 Union ministers CongressThe Congress on Tuesday demanded that Twitter affix lsquomanipulated mediarsquo tag to tweets of 11 Union ministers for allegedly spreading false and malicious propaganda against the partyCongress general secretary Randeep Surjewala has alleged that the ldquoforged fabricated materialrdquo and the claims made under the CongressToolkitExposed by various ministers are identical to the material that has already been marked as lsquomanipulated mediarsquoA child undergoes antigen test at New Delhi railway station on Tuesday PicPTIThe ministers against whom the Congress has sought action are Giriaj Singh Piyush Goyal Smriti Irani Ravi Shankar Prasad Prahlad Joshi Dharmendra Pradhan Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Thawarchand Gehlot Harsh Vardhan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Surjewala said ldquoIt is a matter of fact that people tend to believe lsquotruersquo and take on face value any information that is put up directly by a Union Minister of the Centre through his her official verified Twitter accountrdquoMeanwhile the Delhi police on Tuesday said they had served notices to two Congress leaders in the lsquoCovid toolkitrsquo case asking them to join the probe about 89 days ago Notices were served to Congress social media head Rohan Gupta and party spokesperson MV Rajeev Gowda in connection with the probelsquoVirus in nasal oral cavities dies 1224 hours after deathrsquoCoronavirus doesnrsquot remain active in nasal and oral cavities 12 to 24 hours after the death of an infected person as a result of which the risk of transmission from the deceased is highly unlikely AIIMS Forensic Chief Dr Sudhir Gupta said ldquoAround 100 bodies were retested for Coronavirus in an interval of 12 to 24 hours after death and the result was negative The virus does not remain active at all in nasal and oral cavities 24 hours after deathrdquo80 held in Gujarat for religious ritual against CovidMore than 80 people were arrested for taking out a religious procession to ldquoprotectrdquo their village from Covid19 Gujarat police said on Tuesday Over a 100 men and women from Lalpur village took out the procession on May 22 and police learnt about on Monday after videos went viral on social mediaAlso Read Time for a tweak Small vaccination centres private hospitals in Mumbai become hotspots of chaosThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever26948874Total no of coronavirus cases in India so far307231Total no of deaths due to the virus in India so far2586782Total no of active cases in India