Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
India’s Active Caseload further
contracts to 1.92 Lakhs
More than 8 lakh healthcare workers vaccinated till 7 am today
17 States/UTs have cases per million population lower than the national average
Posted
On: 21 JAN 2021 10:48AM by PIB
The rising daily recoveries and declining new cases has
ensured a total net reduction of the Active Caseload. A net decline of 4,893 cases
has been recorded in the total active cases in last 24 hours.
Following the national trend of consistent decline in the
active cases, 17 States/UTs have cases per million population lower than the
national average.
Five States viz. Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh,
Karnataka and
As on 21st January, 2021, till 7 AM, a total of 8,06,484 beneficiaries have received the vaccination. In the last 24 hours, 1,31,649
people were vaccinated across 2,398 sessions. 14,118 sessions has been conducted so
far.
S. No. |
State/UT |
Beneficiaries vaccinated |
1 |
|
644 |
2 |
Andhra Pradesh |
91,778 |
3 |
Arunachal Pradesh |
3,023 |
4 |
|
7,585 |
5 |
|
47,433 |
6 |
|
469 |
7 |
Chhattisgarh |
16,255 |
8 |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli |
125 |
9 |
Daman & Diu |
94 |
10 |
|
12,902 |
11 |
|
426 |
12 |
|
21,832 |
13 |
Haryana |
30,402 |
14 |
Himachal Pradesh |
5,094 |
15 |
Jammu & Kashmir |
4,414 |
16 |
Jharkhand |
11,641 |
17 |
Karnataka |
1,21,466 |
18 |
Kerala |
24,269 |
19 |
Ladakh |
240 |
20 |
|
369 |
21 |
Madhya Pradesh |
27,770 |
22 |
|
52,055 |
23 |
Manipur |
1454 |
24 |
Meghalaya |
1365 |
25 |
Mizoram |
1508 |
26 |
Nagaland |
2,988 |
27 |
Odisha |
68,743 |
28 |
Puducherry |
759 |
29 |
|
7,607 |
30 |
Rajasthan |
32,379 |
31 |
|
573 |
32 |
Tamil Nadu |
33,670 |
33 |
Telangana |
69,405 |
34 |
Tripura |
3,734 |
35 |
Uttar Pradesh |
22,644 |
36 |
Uttarakhand |
6,119 |
37 |
|
46,310 |
38 |
Miscellaneous |
26,940 |
Total |
8,06,484 |
19,965 cases have recovered in the last 24 hours.
The total recovered cases stand at 10,265,706 which translates to aRecovery Rate of96.75%.
87.06% 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 7,364 recoveries.
83.84%of the new cases are concentrated in eight States and UTs.
Kerala reported the maximum daily new cases numbering 6,815
in the last 24 hours.
Eight States/UTs account for 83.44%of the 151 case fatalities reported in the past 24 hours.
19 States/UTs have deaths per million lower than the
national average.
On the other hand, 17 States/UTs have deaths per million
higher than the national average.
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Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
Dr Harsh Vardhan unveils IEC
Campaign to address Vaccine Hesitancy and Misinformation
“Let us put a STOP to these falsehoods”
“Truth is powerful and shall prevail”
Urges people to follow Truth and seek the Correct Information from authentic
sources
“The Paradox is that countries across the Globe are asking us for access to the
Vaccines while a section of our own is fomenting Misinformation and Doubts for
narrow political ends”
Posted
On: 21 JAN 2021 2:10PM by PIB
Dr. Harsh Vardhan,Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare today unveiledIEC posters to address the emerging issue of vaccine hesitancy in some sections of population in the country in presence of Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare and Dr V K Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog.
The world’s largest immunisation exercise
against COVID-19 was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 16th January
2021.
More than 8 lakh healthcare workers have
been vaccinated till 7 am on 21st Jan 2021.
The Union Health Minister reminded
everyone of the achievements of the country, the second most populous country
in the world. He said, “
Explaining the role of the vaccination in eradicating diseases, he noted, “The elimination of Polio and Smallpox was made possible by large scale immunization. Once immunized, not only that person is not capable of catching the disease, he/she is also unable to transmit the disease to others thus passing on the social benefit to the larger society he/she interacts with. This was also the logic of undertaking mass immunization of women and children against the twelve diseases under Mission Indradhanush. Vaccination against COVID will similarly create persons incapable of transmitting the disease and eradicate the disease altogetherin some time.”
Dr Harsh Vardhan urged everyone to counter the vested
campaigns of untruth and misinformaiton. “Let us put a STOP to these
falsehoods”, he forcefully said. He appealed to people to seek the correct
information from credible and authentic sources such as the Health Ministry,
PIB, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, MyGov website etc. He
reiterated that “Truth is powerful and shall prevail”. And encouraged
everyone to share the IEC posters to mulitply the virtuous cycle of truth.
Commenting on the safety and efficacy of the vaccines, he
said, “All eminent doctors of well-known hospitals have taken the vaccine and
praised the exercise for its desired end. It is only a handful of vested
political interests who are interested in spreading rumour and encouraging
vaccine hesitancy among those vulnerable to such propaganda in the
population.The paradox is that countries across the globe are asking us for
access to the vaccines while a section of our own is fomenting misinformation
and doubt for narrow political ends.” He stated that the prominent doctors
along with many other healthcare workers within the government and the private
sector have taken the COVID19 vaccine, and have returned to their work without
any side effects.
Terming the
Shri Rajesh Bhushan,Union Health Secretary, Ms. Vandana
Gurnani,Addl. Secretary and MD, NHM, Shri Manohar Agnani, Addl. Secretary
(Health), Dr. Sunil Kumar, DGHS, MoHFW and other senior officials were present
at the event.
Dr. Balram Bhargava, DG, ICMR, Dr. Randeep
Guleria, Director, AIIMS, Dr N N Mathur, Director LHMC, Dr. S. V. Arya, MS,
Safdarjung Hospital, Dr. Rana A. K. Singh, MS, RML Hospital and representatives
of development partners like BMGF, UNICEF and WHO attended the event virtually.
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