Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Posted
On: 15 JAN 2021 1:10PM by PIB
The daily new cases added to the country’s COVID numbers
have been below 20K in the recent days. The number of daily new cases in the
last 24 hours is 15,590. 15,975 cases recovered and discharged in the last 24 hours.
New cases per million population in
The total recovered cases stand at 10,162,738. The gap between Recovered Cases and Active
Cases, that is steadily increasing, has crossed 99 lakh and presently stands at 99,49,711.
The difference in New Recoveries outnumbering New Cases has
also improved the Recovery Rate to 96.52% today.
81.15% of the
new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 States/UTs.
Kerala has reported the maximum number of single day
recoveries with 4,337 newly recovered cases. 3,309 people
recovered in
77.56% of the new cases are from 7 States and UTs.
Kerala continues to report the highest daily new cases at 5,490.
It is followed by Maharashtra with 3,579, while
191 case fatalities have been reported in the past 24 hours.
Six States/UTs account for 73.30% of new deaths.
Only 1 new
deaths per million population was reported in
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Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Dr. Harsh Vardhan reviews preparedness for
The Union Minister dispels myths surrounding COVID19 vaccines, reassures
country of efficacy of indigenously manufactured vaccines.
Posted
On: 15 JAN 2021 5:23PM by PIB
The Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Dr.
Harsh Vardhan, today reviewed preparations for the launch of the nationwide
COVID19 vaccination drive scheduled to begin tomorrow. The Union Minister
visited the Dedicated COVID Control Room which has been setup at the Nirman
Bhawan premises of the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
The Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will flag off
the 1st phase of the pan
During his visit to the COVID Control Room, Dr. Harsh
Vardhan minutely scrutinised each aspect of the working of CoWIN, an online
digital platform developed by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
which will be used to drive the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the country.
It will facilitate real time information of vaccine stocks, storage temperature
and individualized tracking of beneficiaries for COVID-19 vaccine. This digital
platform will assist programme managers across National, State, and District
levels while conducting vaccination sessions. It will help them track
beneficiary coverage, beneficiary dropouts, sessions planned v/s sessions held
and vaccine utilization
The platform enables national & state administrators to
view & sort data of beneficiaries as per their gender, age &
co-morbidity. They can also view the metadata of vaccinations and Adverse Event
Following Immunization (AEFI) reported from constituent districts across States
& UTs. District administrators can additionally create session sites at any
location by entering the pin-code, followed by specifying the locality or
villages and subsequently assigning a vaccinator. Dr. Harsh Vardhan suggested
that the software modifications and lessons learnt while using the highly
advanced CoWIN platform be incorporated into
The Union Minister also reviewed the Beneficiary
Registration Page for all non-prioritized groups on CoWIN. He suggested
pre-populating the software with beneficiaries by seeding it with electoral
database, in addition to other documents that are authorized for registration.
The dedicated COVID Control Room has been involved in the
massive exercise of monitoring district wise COVID19 data from across the
country as well as in depth analysis of the data to interpret & evaluate
the status of the pandemic. For the last several months, through this dedicated
control room, the government has been closely monitoring parameters such as
case fatality rates, infection rates, death rates & other parameters based
on which containment strategies have been continuously evolved. The Control
Room has also been helping to track & record best strategies being adopted
by different countries as a part of their response system and translating them
into key learnings for
The Union Minister also reviewed the working of the
‘Communications Control Room’ which has been closely monitoring the
disinformation campaigns and rumour mongering in relation to administering of
COVID19 vaccines. He advised the administrative machinery to go all out to
counter the misinformation campaign being spread by vested interests.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan said
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