Chandigarh: With the concerted efforts of Punjab Government, the State has administered over two crore doses of COVID vaccine so far.

Disclosing this today Deputy Chief Minister Om Prakash Soni said that so far 1.48 crore people in the state had been received the jabbed of first dose while 52 lakh people got both first and second dose.

The Deputy Chief Minister, who is also holding Health portfolio, said that as many as 2.16 lakh people got vaccinated only on Tuesday itself during the mega vaccination drive across the state. He said that Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur and Patiala were the top five districts in immunization so far.

Disclosing more about the ongoing vaccination the Deputy Chief Minister said that 1.77 crore doses of Covashild and 23 lakh doses of Covaxin had been administered in the state.

The Deputy Chief Minister said that 1.07 crore people in the age group of 18-44 years had been vaccinated while 55 lakh people in the age group of 45-60 years and 38 lakh people 60 years and above received jab of vaccine.

Soni said that the Punjab Government is carrying out this vaccination drive on large scale in fast track mode to protect the people from Corona virus besides protecting them from the expected third wave. The Health & Family Welfare Department has fully geared up in view of the third wave, he added.

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New Delhi: With Covid-19 cases are now on decline in the national capital, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Wednesday decided to reopen classes (nursery to Class 8) from November 1 in the schools.

In other announcements, the government body also issued directions to follow Covid-19 norms ahead of Dussehra and Durga Puja in Delhi including restrictions on crowd capacity, mask compliance, and some others to contain virus spread.

The move came after as there was a growing demand from several parents’ groups in the national capital to restart physical classes for schoolchildren of classes 6-8.

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Ottawa: National advisory of Canada has recommended taking third Covid-19 vaccines to certain immunocompromised individuals on Friday. But the body has not reached to a decision whether to provide additional vaccine shots to the broader population.

The new recommendations released by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) on Friday state that stipulate that moderately to severely immunocompromised Canadians should be vaccinated with a primary series of three doses of an authorized mRNA-based vaccine, which includes those from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, a CBC media report said.

“For those who’ve already had a two-dose series, NACI recommends providing a third dose, ideally of an mRNA vaccine — but the committee stressed this should not be considered a “booster,” the report added.

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