NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday knowledgeable that 22 districts in 7 states had been reporting an growing pattern in each day COVID-19 circumstances for final 4 weeks, which is stated was a matter of concern.
“22 districts in 7 states reporting growing pattern in each day Covid circumstances for final 4 weeks; this is a cause of concern,’’ the federal government stated.
“There are 22 districts- 7 from Kerala, 5 from Manipur, 3 in Meghalaya among others, where an increasing trend in cases has been reported, in the last 4 weeks. It is a cause of concern,” Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry, stated throughout a press briefing.
There are 22 districts- 7 from Kerala, 5 from Manipur, 3 in Meghalaya amongst others, the place an growing pattern in circumstances has been reported, in the final 4 weeks. It is a cause of concern: Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry pic.twitter.com/Js4WQ9fHst
— ANI (@ANI) July 27, 2021
“There are 54 districts in 12 states, UTs which reported over 10 per cent COVID positivity charge for the week ending July 26,’’ the federal government added.
The Centre additionally refuted media studies claiming that India will miss the end-July goal of administering 50 crore COVID vaccine doses as “ill-informed and misrepresenting” and asserted that over 51.60 crore vaccine doses shall be provided from January to July 31.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a assertion referring to latest media studies alleging that the nation will miss the goal of administering half-a-billion (50 crore) doses of the COVID-19 vaccine by July-end whereas stating that the federal government had said in May that it might make 516 million (51.60 crore) vaccine pictures obtainable by the top of this month.
These studies are ill-informed and have clearly misrepresented the information, it stated. The ministry stated that the figures of 516 million vaccine doses might need been picked up from numerous sources which knowledgeable concerning the probably availability of the vaccine doses from January 2021 to the top of July 2021 however the information are that a whole of greater than 516 million vaccine doses will certainly be provided from January 2021 to July 31, 2021.
It additional stated that the vaccine doses are provided to the states and UTs as per advance allocation and knowledge to them.
“Vaccines are supplied in various schedules throughout a month. Therefore, the availability of 516 million doses till the end of a particular month does not mean that every dose supplied till that month is going to be consumed or administered. There would be supplies in pipeline, which should be available for next few days till the next supplies of vaccine doses materialise in a particular State/District/Sub District to keep vaccination going on,” it stated.
As of date, a cumulative whole of 457 million doses have been provided to the states and UTs from January 2021 until date and an extra 60.3 million doses are anticipated to be provided by July 31. This will quantity to a whole of 517 million doses provided from January 2021 to July 31 2021.
“It should be appreciated that India has crossed the landmark of 440 million (44.19 crores) doses administered, which is the largest numbers achieved in the world and has been done at quite a brisk pace too. Out of these 9.60 crores are cases where both the doses have been administered,” it added.
A complete of 11.97 crore doses was administered in June 2021. Similarly, for the month of July 2021 (as of July 26), a whole of 10.62 crore doses have already been administered.
It is the endeavour of the federal government to supply vaccination to eligible residents in the shortest potential time as per the supply of the COVID vaccines, the ministry stated.
