A health worker holds a vaccine bottle during a trial of a Covid-19 vaccine delivery system at the Northern Railway Central Hospital in New Delhi. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
5 years ago
Jan 12, 2021
Active coronavirus cases in India continued to decline at a time when the central and state governments are preparing for an immunisation programme in the country with the world's second worst outbreak.
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE raised their Covid-19 vaccine production target for this year to 2 billion shots. The previous production target was 1.3 billion doses.
A World Health Organization team of scientists is beginning a long-delayed trip to China to study the origins of the virus.
Ireland’s hospitals are under mounting pressure as it grapples with a daily infection rate that’s now among the highest in the world, with ambulances forming a backlog outside one facility over the weekend.
Total cases across the world top 90 million; deaths surpass 1.94 million.
Several states on Sunday said they have made all necessary preparations for the first phase of the inoculation exercise, including identification of vaccination sites and registration of healthcare and other frontline workers. The nation-wide rollout is scheduled for Jan. 16.
