Health

LISBON, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Portugal will accelerate the immunization campaign against COVID-19 to curb the rapid spread of the Delta variant, vice-admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, Portuguese vaccination coordinator, said Saturday.

The goal is to vaccinate "about 850,000 people a week" using the "maximum stocks of vaccine" available, Gouveia e Melo told the Portuguese news agency Lusa. "We are in a war against the virus, and we are going to give as much as we can to advance the vaccination process, taking it to the limit."

United Nations/Geneva, Jul 3 (PTI) The world is in a very "dangerous period" of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuing to evolve and mutate, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned.

He said in countries with low vaccination coverage, terrible scenes of hospitals overflowing are again becoming the norm.

NEW DELHI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government said on Saturday two doses of COVID-19 vaccine provide around 98 percent protection from death due to the disease, while one dose gives nearly 92 percent safety.

The details were given by V K Paul, member (health) of the government think-tank National Institution for Transforming India (NITI ) Aayog (commission) during a media briefing in New Delhi.

Mumbai, July 1 (PTI) The Mumbai police on Thursday registered a new First Information Report against eight persons for holding fake COVID-19 vaccination camps for a private firm, an official said.

This is the 10th FIR registered in Mumbai after a racket which held bogus or unauthorized vaccination camps for housing societies and private firms came to light last month.

The latest case relates to such camps held for Inter Gold company, the police official said.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia plans to halve commercial passenger arrivals due to virus risks as parts of the country emerged from lockdowns Friday.

Australia will reduce its cap on arrivals from 6,000 passengers a week to 3,000 by July 14 to reduce pressure on hotel quarantine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said after a meeting with state and territory leaders.

01 July 2021; MEMO: Egypt has domestically produced its first 300,000-dose batch of China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday.

Health Minister Hala Zayed told reporters that the doses were manufactured in two local factories, adding that one of the facilities was operating with a "capacity of 300,000 doses per day and an annual production capacity of 110 to 220 million doses."

New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Baba Ramdev to place before it the original record of his statement on the use of allopathic medicine during COVID-19 pandemic.

What is the original thing which he has said? You have not placed the whole thing, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana asked senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who was appearing for the yoga guru.

Rohatgi told the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy, that he would file the original video along with the transcript.

Kanpur: Patients suffering from black fungus in Lala Lajpat Rai hospital can't have injections as these are out of stock for the past three days. Medicines like amphotericin injection and posaconazole capsule are out of stock at the hospital's store.

As many as 40 patients are admitted for treatment in the Medical College hospital. 

It is said that a total of about 250 injections were  earlier issued for treating the patients of black fungus at the hospital so far. 

29 June 2021; MEMO: Iran reported on Tuesday that the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, first discovered in India, was detected in more than 10 people, Anadolu Agency reported.

"Unfortunately, more than 10 cases of Delta variant were detected in Mashhad yesterday evening," Mehdi Kelyan, deputy rector of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, told the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA).

Kanpur: As many as 12 new cases of Corona surfaced in the city areas on Monday while three patients recovered in the home isolation.

On Monday a total of 7,353 samples were tested. As many as 2,531 samples were tested by antigen kit, out of which the only one tested positive.

In the latest update issued on the part of chief medical officer Dr Nepal Singh, no news of the death in previous days came to light on Monday.

Upon grounding of new cases, the total number of active patients reached 65.