A health worker holds a syringe while testing the vaccination process during a trial of a Covid-19 vaccine delivery system at the Northern Railway Central Hospital in New Delhi, India. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
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Jan 15, 2021
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New York state reported more than 200 daily Covid-19 deaths for the first time since May. The state’s hospitalisations are mounting even as much of the Northeast has started to get a reprieve. Florida also reported over 200 deaths, the most in one day since August.
France will extend a 6 p.m. curfew across the country. Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to tighten Germany’s lockdown as cases surpassed 2 million. In Brazil, severe oxygen shortages at hospitals in the Amazon prompted local authorities to impose a curfew, and some patients are being airlifted to other states to deal with the onslaught of a second coronavirus wave.
Globally over 92.7 million have contracted the coronavirus infection since the beginning of the pandemic and over 2 million have died.
However, pregnant and lactating women should not be administered the shots as they have not been part of any anti-coronavirus vaccine clinical trial so far, the health ministry said.
"Interchangeability of Covid-19 vaccines is not permitted. Second dose should also be of the same Covid-19 vaccine which was administered as the first dose," the letter written by Manohar Agnani, Additional Secretary, Union health ministry said.
Read the full letter regarding contradictions and precautions for the vaccine here.
