The Prime Minister also stressed that the country needs to institutionalise the best practices learnt during the last one and a half years, and said that this is an opportunity to modify our practices, in tune with the global standards.
All travellers with a 14-day travel history to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be allowed to enter or transit through Singapore from Wednesday, the health ministry said.
Odisha currently has 4,581 active cases, while 603 people were cured of the disease on Friday, taking the total number of recoveries to 10,25,025.
A decrease of 2,017 cases has been recorded in the total active number of COVID-19 cases in a span of 24 hours.
If authorised, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine would be the first Covid-19 vaccine for younger children.
In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 34,143,236 cases.
In the interim analysis, there was a 50 per cent reduction in risk of hospitalisation or death (7.3 per cent with drug vs 14.1 per cent with placebo) with Molnupiravir.
Seven districts - Deogarh, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Koraput, Malkangiri and Nuapada, did not report any new cases during the last 24 hours.
A few large high-income countries have not yet reported data to WHO.
A decrease of 3,086 cases has been recorded in the total active number of COVID-19 cases in a span of 24 hours.
US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 45,294,293 and 733,064, according to the CSSE.
As the festival season is underway, the state government is trying to accelerate its vaccination drive. The government is planning to ensure that at least one dose is administered to each person by December end. This information was shared by Odisha Family Welfare Director, Bijay Panigrahi on Thursday (Oct 21).
Odisha government’s top health official discounted the chances of third wave hitting the State
The Health Minister released a theme song and a film to mark the occasion of achieving 100 cr vaccination milestone. The theme song has been voiced by renowned Padma Shri Awardee Kailash Kher. The Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharti Praveen Pawar was also present on the occasion.
The Odisha government will be beginning the preparatory exercises from tomorrow with India becoming the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for kids as young as 2-years old early this month
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