New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with top officials to review the progress of vaccination and COVID-19 situation in the country and expressed satisfaction at the rising speed of vaccinations this week.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 26 (ANI): Maharashtra administered 7,02,432 COVID-19 vaccine doses, the highest single-day vaccinations in the state so far, on Saturday till 6 pm, said Dr Pradip Vyas, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of the State Health Department.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 26 (ANI): The West Bengal government on Saturday formed a four-member expert committee to examine the effect of the fake COVID-19 vaccination in Kolkata and also to take corrective actions.
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a review meeting on Saturday to discuss the progress of the COVID-19 vaccination drive across the country.
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): The Central government will provide more than 19,10,650 COVID-19 vaccine doses to states and union territories in the next three days, informed the Health Ministry on Saturday.
Buenos Aires [Argentina], June 26 (ANI): Mortality rate from COVID-19 among people older than 60 declined by 70-80 per cent after vaccination with Russia's Sputnik V or AstraZeneca jabs, the Argentinian health ministry said on Friday.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 26 (ANI): West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday wrote to Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan demanding a probe by Central agencies into the alleged COVID-19 vaccination fraud case in Kolkata.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 26 (ANI): India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has said its earlier estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 10.1 per cent for the current financial year (FY22) is unlikely to hold due to the speed and scale of Covid 2.0.
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): As many as 48,698 new COVID-19 cases, 64,818 recoveries, and 1,183 deaths were reported in the country in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Saturday.
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 25 (ANI): Two days after a man duped Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty for the fake vaccination drive in Kolkata, the police have formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the matter.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 25 (ANI): Four days after the Centre launched a centralised COVID-19 vaccination drive, Telangana vaccinated over 1.98 lakh people with the first dose on Thursday, while 13,034 people were fully inoculated.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 25 (ANI): Over one crore COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Telangana till date, the state's Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar said on Friday.