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  • Minor boy in Madhya Pradesh receives Covid shot, falls sick; probe ordered

    By PTI

    MORENA: A 16-year-old boy fell ill after he was allegedly administered a COVID-19 vaccine in Bagh Ka Pura locality in Ambah tehsil of Morena district in Madhya Pradesh, prompting authorities to order a probe on Sunday.

    A senior health official said the probe will find out how the teenager was given the shot even though the government is yet to roll out any anti-COVID 19 vaccination programme for minors.

    Pillu, son of Kamlesh Kushwaha, was administered the jab at a vaccination centre, nearly 35 km away from the Morena district headquarters, on Saturday following which his head spun and he started frothing from the mouth, sources said.

    Doctors in Ambah referred him to Gwalior for treatment, they said.

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    After Pillu fell ill, his family created a scene at the vaccination centre.

    “We are checking whether Pillu reached Gwalior or not. According to unconfirmed reports he returned to his house instead of going to Gwalior,” Morena District Chief Medical and Health Officer (CM&HO) Dr AD Sharma said.

    He said a team was sent to Pillu’s house this morning.

    “We are checking whether Pillu was suffering from epilepsy,” he added.

    Dr Sharma said “An inquiry has been ordered to ascertain how the minor boy was given the COVID-19 shot”.

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    Pillu’s Aadhaar card will be checked, Dr Sharma added.

    According to Pillu’s Aadhaar card, he is 16-year-old and a resident of Kok Singh Ka Pura.

    His date of birth mentioned on the card is January 1, 2005, said people who know the boy’s family.

    Indigenously developed Zydus Cadila COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D, which received approval for Emergency Use Authorisation from the Drug Controller General of India recently, will be administered to people 12 years and above, the Department of Biotechnology had said.

  • Covid-19 positivity rate declining in Madhya Pradesh: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: The average weekly positivity rate of coronavirus cases was declining in Madhya Pradesh and currently stood at 21.3 per cent, in line with the national figure, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday.

    The CM, who chaired a meeting to review the outbreak situation in the state, said the number of people recovering from the infection was higher than those getting infected.

    He asked officials to pay attention to those districts where the positivity rate (detection per 100 tests) continued to be on the higher side.

    He said ‘corona curfew’ must be made more effective, and a door-to-door survey must be conducted to identify and treat patients.

    On May 3, a total of 12,062 cases were reported in the state, and 13,408 people recovered.

    The active caseload stands at 85,750, while the recovery and mortality rates are 84.7 per cent and 1 per cent respectively, officials said.

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  • 60-hour weekend Covid-19 lockdown in all Madhya Pradesh cities: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

    By PTI
    BHOPAL: A lockdown will be enforced in all cities of Madhya Pradesh from 6 pm on Friday to 6 am on Monday to check the spread of the coronavirus infection, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Thursday.

    Talking to reporters here after chairing a meeting to review the COVID-19 situation in MP, Chouhan said his government aims to increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients in the state to one lakh.

    “A lockdown will be enforced in all cities of the state from 6 pm on Friday to 6 am on Monday,” Chouhan said.

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    In the past three weeks, the state government imposed lockdowns in Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur and Gwalior on Sundays and extended the curbs to some other cities last Sunday.

    Chouhan said various crisis management groups will hold meetings to review the situation in cities where there has been a spurt in COVID-19 cases and will decide the course of action to contain it.

    Besides increasing the number of beds for the viral infection patients, the state government has also decided to set up one COVID-19 care centre in each district, he said.

    There are total 52 districts in MP.

    Private hospitals are also being roped in to increase number of beds for COVID-19 patients, Chouhan said.

    On Wednesday, MP reported 4,043 new cases of coronavirus, taking its tally to 3,18,014, while 13 fatalities pushed the death toll to 4,086, as per official data.

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