According to official sources reported by the news agency, the expert panel will meet today to discuss the issues of child immunization and additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine. ANI.
The meeting will be held in the backdrop of more people getting infected with the Omicron version of COVID-19.
As previously reported by ANI, NTAGI will come out with comprehensive policies for both additional COVID-19 vaccine doses and child immunization against COVID-19.
There is a difference between a booster dose and an additional dose. A booster dose is given after a pre-determined period of time after the primary two doses have been given, while an additional dose is given to people who have basic problems with their immune functions.
If they are not able to develop sufficient immunity to COVID-19, an additional dose is given with the aim of improving immunity levels.
On the administration of booster doses, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had recently informed the Lok Sabha that the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) and the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) would consider the relevant scientific evidence. Discussing and pondering. to this aspect.
According to the WHO, the first known confirmed B.1.1529 infection was from a sample collected on November 9 this year.
On 26 November, WHO named the new COVID-19 variant B.1.1.529, which has been detected in South Africa as ‘Omicron’. The WHO has classified Omicron as having a ‘type of concern’.
Meanwhile, India reported 8895 fresh COVID-19 cases and 2,796 deaths in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry on Sunday.
According to the ministry, the spike in deaths was reported as the 2,426 reconciled deaths reported by Bihar were adjusted in today’s database. The ministry said that Kerala has cleared the backlog of 263 deaths, hence the deaths are increasing.
The cumulative death toll has now reached 4,73,326. The active caseload of the country is 99,155. The ministry said that the active cases are less than 1 per cent of the total cases and at present it is 0.29 per cent, which is the lowest since March 2020.
6,918 have been cured in the last 24 hours. With this, the total recoveries increased to 3,40,60,774. As a result, the recovery rate is 98.35 percent.
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