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India has inoculated more than 15 lakh frontline healthcare workers so far, additional health secretary Manohar Agnani said in a statement today.
Over 1.4 lakh people were vaccinated till 6 p.m. on Jan. 23, eight days on since the world’s largest inoculation drive started.
Eleven people have been hospitalised till now after taking the vaccine. The government did not specify the ailments. While six have died after vaccination, none of those has deaths are related to the jabs, Agnani said.
The U.K.’s new strain of coronavirus may be more deadly than first thought, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, as he warned again that the country faces a long wait before it can emerge from lockdown.
Speaking at a news conference Friday in London, the premier said new evidence had led the government to revise its initial view that the variant was more contagious but not more dangerous. It may be 30% more deadly than the original strain - or more, a government analysis found.
Global Update
Globally, cases crossed 9.8 crore with deaths passing 21 lakh as of Saturday morning.
The U.K.’s new more contagious strain of coronavirus may be linked to higher mortality, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
Hong Kong is locking down thousands of residents for the first time over the weekend in a bid to contain a worsening outbreak. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state would on Friday run out of all the vaccines that had been delivered.
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