-The Hindu Its fifth edition has encouraging news but addressing discriminatory social norms must remain top priority The health system in India has been facing unprecedented stress during the COVID-19 pandemic which includes the looming Omicron threat now on the horizon. Against this backdrop, the recently released fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 brings some positive news. NFHS-5, which presents a bird’s eye view of the state of the...
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Vaccines Still Effective Against Omicron, Says WHO Chief Scientist
-ANI/ NDTV.com "As expected, T cell immunity holding up better against #Omicron. This will protect us against severe disease. Please get vaccinated if you have not," said WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan in a tweet Geneva: Emphasising that the Omicron variant is infecting both vaccinated and unvaccinated people worldwide, WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan has said that it appears that vaccines are still proving to be effective because even though...
More »Centre pushes 11 States to step up vaccination; no national curbs
-The Hindu Business Line Experts to decide on jabs for children, booster dose The Centre will wait for the expert view to decide on Covid vaccination for children and booster shots but focus on scaling up the pace of inoculation, with the Health Ministry on Friday impressing on 11 States to ramp up their effort. The States that are a cause of concern are Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh,...
More »Omicron drives Indians, especially health workers, to quietly get booster from pvt hospitals -Mohana Basu and Anusha Ravi Sood
-ThePrint.in Centre is yet to recommend booster dose for Covid vaccine & CoWin neither allows registration for third dose nor issues certificate for it. But that appears to be no impediment for some. New Delhi/ Bengaluru: Fear of a drop in antibody level six months after receiving the second vaccine dose, and rising concern about the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, have pushed people in some parts of the country...
More »Activate War Rooms, Night Curfews As Needed, Centre Tells States: 10 Points -Parimal Kumar,
-NDTV.com The thresholds, the Centre said, are test positivity of 10 per cent or more in the last one week or 40 per cent occupancy on oxygen supported or ICU beds. States must take "containment measures, curbs even before thresholds are reached". New Delhi: Omicron is three times as infectious as Delta and "war rooms" are needed to contain it, the Centre has told states. It listed a series of prevention and...
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