New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): On the second day of the pan-India inoculation drive, as many as 17,072 beneficiaries were vaccinated against COVID-19 at 553 sessions in six states of the country on Sunday, said the Union Health Ministry.
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): India recorded the highest number of vaccinations on day one in the world on Saturday, at 2,07,229, higher than the US, UK and France on day one, said Union Health Ministry Sunday.
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Out of two lakh healthcare beneficiaries who received COVID-19 vaccine in the last two days, a total of 447 beneficiaries suffered adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) while three of them required hospitalisation, the Union Health Ministry on Sunda
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 3,339 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the national total to 158,434, the health ministry said on Sunday.
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): There is no change in the total number of persons found positive with the new UK strain of COVID19 since yesterday (Saturday), the number of infected persons remains at 116, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday.
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 17 (ANI/Xinhua): The Afghan Public Health Ministry launched a nationwide campaign on Sunday to give polio vaccination doses to 9.9 million children under the age of five, the ministry said in a statement.
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): India reported 15,144 new COVID-19 cases and 181 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 17 (ANI): Fourteen cases of adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) were reported in West Bengal on the first day of the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive on Saturday.
Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Jan 16 (ANI): Odisha Additional Chief Secretary Pradipta Mohapatra of Health Ministry on Saturday said that there will be no COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 17 as the administration wants to observe the people who took vaccines today.
Doha [Qatar], January 16 (ANI/Xinhua): The Qatari Health Ministry on Saturday said there are 204 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number in the Gulf state to 147,089, official Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.
Minsk [Belarus], January 16 (ANI/Xinhua): Belarus reported 1,933 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday taking its total to 223,537, according to the country's health ministry.
New Delhi [India], January 16 (ANI): Union Health Ministry on Saturday termed the first day of the COVID-19 vaccination drive as successful and added that no case of post-vaccination hospitalisation reported today.