Tag: Vaccination

The number of active cases of the infection has gone up to 1,28,762, accounting for 0.37 per cent of the total caseload, the lowest since March 2020, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.28 per cent, the highest since March 2020.

It found there were no differences in peak viral loads between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. It also showed only a small decrease in the number of infections in household members between vaccinated and unvaccinated people, suggesting a similar level of infectiousness.

As many as 16 Lakh people are due to receive their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine in different districts of Odisha. This information was shared by Odisha Family Welfare Director, Bijay Panigrahi on Friday (August 27).

Keonjhar: A two-month-old infant died couple of hours after being administered vaccination at Puskala village under Telkoi in Keonjhar district late on Wednesday night.Tension ran high in the village after locals detained an Auxiliary Nursing Midwifery (ANM) today in connection with the incident. The infuriated villagers also resorted to road blockade demanding adequate compensation for […]

Rourkela: An infant, who was administered a dose DPT vaccine on Wednesday, died within a few hours of the shot, her family alleged. The three-month-old daughter of one Saroj Sahu was administered the vaccine at their house in Malgodown area under Uditnagar police limits by an Anganwadi worker. Three hours later, the baby died, the […]

Bhubaneswar: Over 1.1 crore children have been vaccinated under Measles-Rubella Vaccination campaign in last 20 days in Odisha, said an official on Tuesday. The Measles-Rubella (MR) Vaccination campaign that started on January 29 has been completed in 70,367 schools, said Kamalakanta Das, state immunisation officer. While the school campaign was completed on February 17, the […]

Bhubaneswar: The launching of vaccination programme for measles and rubella is likely to be marred tomorrow as contractual staff nurses appointed under the National Health Mission (NHM) have warned the government of cease work agitation for indefinite period demanding regularisation of job.   Hundreds of nurses who staged dharna at PMG square in Bhubaneswar demanding […]

Malkangiri: The vaccination drive against the Japanese Encephalitis that has so far claimed over 120 children’s lives in Malkangiri district began here today. District Collector K Sudarshan Chakravarty inaugurated the drive at the IMST School here at 8.15 AM. The programme would be carried out from 8 AM to 3 PM everyday for 15 days. […]

Malkangiri: At time when deaths due to Japanese Encephalitis continues to remain unabated in tribal dominated Malkangiri district, Congress leader and former Nabarangpur MP Pradip Majhi has called for ‘Judhyam Dehi’ movement and has announced to observe fast-unto-death from December 21 demanding fulfilment of his demands. The three demands made by Pradip Majhi are- filling […]

Malkangiri: The death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) mounted to 117 in Malkangiri district with the death of another kid at district headquarters hospital today even as the survey of kids in affected areas for vaccination completed on Tuesday. Four-year old Daniel Padiami of Bataniguda village under Padia block was undergoing treatment in ICU […]

Malkangiri: With the death of one more child, the death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) mounted to 116 in Malkangiri district. Two-year old Kasi Madkami of Korakonda succumbed to the vector borne disease while undergoing treatment at district headquarters hospital today. Three more kids are also currently in the ICU of the hospital in […]

Malkangiri: With the death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis in Malkangiri district touching 114 today, the district administration on Sunday kick-started house-to-house survey for collection of data about kids in between one and 15 years old in the district as a part of process for vaccination against Japanese Encephalitis. The Malkangiri district administration has formed […]

Malkangiri: With the Japanese Encephalitis death toll reaching 105 in Malkangiri on Sunday, the district-level task force committee chaired by Malkangiri Collector K Sudarshan Chakraborty today held its first meeting to talk about the launch of vaccination of kids in the district in its bid to tackle the spread of the vector-borne disease. The house-to-house […]

Bhubaneswar: As the State government today began its training program for vaccination against the vector-borne Japanese Encephalitis (JE), the disease is casting its deadly shadows on Koraput district after Malkangiri. The disease has allegedly claimed two lives in Koraput district. While one child died of the disease yesterday, another identified as Laxman Tara from Baipariguda […]

New York: Administering Tdap vaccination — tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis — to pregnant women may not increase children’s risk of developing autism spectrum disorder, claims a study of more than 80,000 children born. The study showed that the autism spectrum disorder rate in children was 1.5 per cent in the maternal Tdap vaccinated group and […]