The point at which India can claim to have achieved herd immunity against COVID-19 is “far away” for the country’s population. This is according to Rajesh Bhushan, an official at the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He has claimed that the only way India can achieve a level of immunity across the population …
Early this month a preliminary, unpublished study was released that claimed that countries that regularly use the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine had both fewer cases and fewer deaths than countries that did not use the vaccine. However, the BCG vaccine is unlikely to be the hope that it was preemptively established to be. The BCG …
Karnataka’s immunisation coverage among children has reached 99 percent as part of centrally-led efforts to increase vaccination rates against multiple infectious diseases. ‘Indradhanush 2’ was announced earlier this year in a bid to, as previously noted by Health Issues India, “boost vaccination coverage for those who are either unimmunised or only partially immunised, to further …
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The Punjab government has been criticised by a BJP official over rabies vaccine shortages in the state. Parveen Bansal, general secretary of the Punjab BJP chapter, took the state government to task after he reported sending someone who had been bitten by a dog to the Ludhiana Civil Hospital. According to a report published in …
The Delhi government will procure 80,000 vials of the anti-rabies vaccine to address shortages statewide. The Cabinet approved the decision, including an ex-post facto approval of an earlier decision to purchase 40,000 doses of the anti-rabies vaccine. The procurement will take place on an emergency single-bid basis, as shortages in hospitals have been reported throughout …
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There may be renewed hope of combating dengue fever amongst reports of cases spiking over recent weeks. A domestically produced dengue fever vaccine may be made available in 2020. The dengue vaccination will be introduced in India early next year. This rollout of the vaccine will only be partial, however. A senior official of the …
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Bio-Med Pvt. Ltd, the company placed under question in the recent polio vaccine scare, is under further scrutiny — this time for a mandatory meningitis vaccine. The company was barred from producing commercial products after batches of a polio vaccine sold by the company were found to contain live type-2 virus. A temporary licence was …
Eight months ago, an incident occurred that struck a severe blow to confidence in India’s vaccine industry. Thirty lakh batches of polio vaccine came under suspicion in October 2018, after samples showed that these batches contained type 2 live poliovirus, a strain that was declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 2015. The apparently-contaminated …
India has recently faced an alarming — and high-profile — incident in which polio vaccines were contaminated with live type-2 strains of the virus. While the incident has largely been relegated to the media’s archives, this is not the only issue India faces with regards to polio. Stock shortages could see Indian children going without …
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Nearly half of all vaccines delivered globally are manufactured in India. This is a considerable accolade for India’s pharmaceutical industry. Indian vaccines are saving potentially millions of lives on a global basis, however, homegrown misinformation could be limiting India’s success in delivering vaccines to its own people. The need for high immunisation coverage levels …
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