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Our vaccines effective against alpha, beta, gamma corona variants: ICMR

Amidst the ongoing corona vaccination in the country, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Dr Balram Bhargava gave a relief information on Friday. He said that the vaccines of Covishield and Covaxin are effective against alpha, beta, gamma and delta variants of the corona virus. According to ICMR, the Delta Plus variant of Covid has been found so far in 12 countries of the world. At the same time, 48 cases have been identified in our country so far.

Dr Bhargava said that the vaccine of Covid can also be given to pregnant women. He said that this has also been mentioned in the guidelines of the Ministry of Health. According to Dr Bhargava, ‘the way we tested other variants of the corona virus, similarly research is being done on Delta Plus’. It is believed that in the next seven to 10 days, its results will also be available.

Expected Time to give vaccine to children: ICMR DG

On the question of giving vaccine to children, he said that America is the only country which is giving vaccine to children at this time. Whether very young children will ever need the vaccine is still a question. Unless we have more data on child immunization, we will not be in a position to vaccinate children on a large scale. However, we have started a small study on children aged 2-18 years and we will have the results in September or later.

48 Delta Plus cases across the country : Dr. SK Singh

Dr SK Singh, Director, National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said that so far there are 48 cases of Delta Plus across the country. He said that 8 states are important where we have got more than 50 per cent cases of delta variant. These include Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Telangana and West Bengal.

There are 125 districts in the country where there are only more than 100 cases: Health Ministry

Health Ministry Joint Secretary Luv Agarwal said that 51,666 corona cases were registered in the last 24 hours. Corona cases have decreased by 24 percent in the last one week. There are 125 districts in the country where only more than 100 cases are coming.

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