Uttar Pradesh vaccination drive: 3.35 cr people fully vaccinated
With this, the proportion of fully immunised persons in the state crossed 22.3 per cent.
With this, the proportion of fully immunised persons in the state crossed 22.3 per cent.
Odisha has achieved a milestone in the inoculation drive against COVID-19 as over one core people in the state have so far received both doses of the vaccines.
Odisha reached the one crore vaccination mark on June 21 while the inoculators took another 58 days to vaccinate one crore more people. In the next 24 days, 50 lakh people were vaccinated as inoculation has gained pace in the past one month.
The State has reported a minuscule ratio of people testing COVID-19 positive after administration of vaccine doses. Odisha now has 50,19,259 fully vaccinated people. Over 2.1 crore people have so far received the COVID vaccine. Of them, over 50 lakh are fully vaccinated.
Political parties could be persuaded to campaign virtually, and shun roadshows and rallies, at least in urban and semi-urban areas where such mediums are much in use and where intensity of Covid infections is also higher, mainly due to density of population. A properly developed portal could give voters the option of online voting, again in metros.
On the other hand, TMC candidate of Habibpur, Pradip Baskey, allegedly visited booths with party symbols in his dresses and engaged himself in "heated discussions" with the central forces in some of the booths over this.
It is aimed at checking spread of infections by preventing migrants from mixing with co-villagers
The last time India recorded less than 30,000 daily cases was on July 15.
Of the 118 new infections, 49 were local transmission cases- 41.52% of total positive cases diagnosed during the past 24 hours. 69 were detected in quarantine centres.
Kolkata has recorded a total of 5,402 cases till now, North 24-Parganas 2,545 and Howrah 2,481.
