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  • No farmer is anti-national but some elements want to take advantage of them, says Baba Ramdev

    Express News Service
    DEHRADUN: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday said that some people are taking advantage of farmers and that not a single farmer in this country is anti-national.  

    “Not a single farmer of this country is anti-national but there are some elements who have other motives and want to take advantage of the farmers. The movement must be saved from such elements,” said the Yoga Guru.

    He also expressed his concern for the farmers protesting in such a bad weather when winters are on peak.   “The government is already listening to the concerns of the parents and has assured them of rectifying their issues,” said the Yoga Guru.

    He also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in no way against farmers of this country. “He (Modi) is the first PM who has promised to double the income of the farmers of the country and to deliver justice. Instead of being adamant over rolling back the farm laws both sides must act on finding a midway,” said the yoga guru.

    Attacking the opposition parties, Baba Ramdev said that many parties who have nothing left to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi are dragging vaccine into politics.  

    “The opposition has nothing left through which they can blame Modi ji. These parties should refrain from politicising the vaccine. They have become ideologically bankrupt and have nothing. They should look for genuine issues to confront Modi and think of a ‘solution’ to his political acumen. We should all be alert of such elements who are hindering anything that is to benefit our country,” added Ramdev while speaking to the media in Haridwar.

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    Commenting further on the ongoing row over Indian vaccines approved by the government, Ramdev said that the vaccines are for the good of the people and the country should be thankful to the scientists. “Vaccine doesn’t belong to any party or a particular sect. It is a scientific product that is important for people having comorbidities such as hypertension and diabetes. They must get vaccinated along with our frontline health workers who are fighting this pandemic,” said Ramdev. He also asserted that people who are healthy must put their name on a waiting list and wait for vaccination.  

    Last month, Uttarakhand government officials had said that more than 93,000 health workers of the state will be given the COVID-19 vaccine free of cost. Officials from the state health department told that work is on to prepare a list of other frontline workers including those from the state police department as well as people aged over 50-years with any comorbidities.

     Uttarakhand will vaccinate over 20 lakh people in the state in the first phase of vaccination which will include one lakh frontline workers, five lakh sick and 13 lakh elderly. Whether they will be charged or be vaccinated free of cost is not clear yet.

    The state government has already formed multiple-level task forces at state, district and block levels for Covid-19 vaccination in the near future. The state-level task force, headed by the chief secretary, will have a total of 11 members including secretaries of finance, health, home, world and child development, urban development, Panchayati raj, rural development and director-general of health. 

  • Vaccine will not be administered to the sufferers due to cold-cough fever, corona symptoms

    To test the preparation for the corona vaccination, a mock drill was conducted at three health centers in Surguja district on Saturday in the presence of Sarguja Collector Sanjeev Jha. The director of the National Health Mission had discussed about the preparations through video conferencing before discussing it with all the district collectors. The objective of the Mock Drill was to test cold chain management, vaccine supply, storage, logistics as well as preparedness of people arriving for vaccination to enter their entry, registration, vaccination and observation. During the vaccination, the time taken from the entry of the Kovin app to the vaccine was also assessed during this period. The benefit of this vaccine will be available to people who do not have symptoms of corona.

    After verification of the identity card which was registered by the registered person to avail the vaccine, the information of the OTP that came in the beneficiary’s mobile was drilled. After this, by consulting the concerned person in a separate room, an attempt was made to find out if they have any symptoms of fever, cold cough or corona. After undergoing these procedures, the registered person will get the opportunity to enter the vaccination room for vaccination. Here auto disposable syringe se will be used for the vaccine. The health worker present in the first chamber will confirm whether or not the beneficiary is the same person reached by ANM to take advantage of the vaccine.

    District Immunization Officer Dr. Rajesh Bhajagavali informed that hundred people have been ensured to be vaccinated within eight hours in a vaccination center. Vaccination facility will be available in all primary health centers of the district. Preliminary preparations for this have been completed. According to the registration of benefits, they will get this facility.

  • Two full doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Corona vaccine being made in India work up to this percentage

    Many vaccine trials are underway worldwide to prevent the corona virus. In such a situation, there are some vaccines whose percentage is more than 90. Meanwhile, information has surfaced about the Corona vaccine (CoveShield) of Oxford University and the AstraZeneca company (Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine), with two full doses giving better immune responses. Let me tell you that Oxford University, after one full dose, its vaccine triggers a better immune response when given two whole doses than half the booster dose.

    The university has issued a statement regarding this, which said that – First we tried a full and a half dose. That is, the candidate was given one and a half doses. Now two full doses were given. Their results were much better. A month ago, AstraZeneca and Oxford stated on the vaccine that, the vaccine’s booster dose produces stronger anti-antibody response than the single dose, with the standard dose / standard dose being the best response.

    In the interim results of Oxford Vaccine, the vaccine was reported to be either 90% or 62% effective according to the dose strength. Scientists say that its average aphecy was 70%. But after some time, questions started being raised on this data. In the dose pattern up to 90% of which the vaccine was proving to be effective, the participants were given half the dose first, then a month later. It was found that the company did not think of giving half dose to any participant.

  • Corona infection situation in the state under control: Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel

    The Chief Minister Shri Bhupesh Baghel attended the Chief Ministers Meeting organized by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi through video conferencing from his residence office here today. The meeting reviewed measures to prevent and prevent corona infection in various states and discussed preparations and action plans for the introduction of vaccine in the near future.

    Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel told in the meeting that the condition of corona infection in the state is under control. 23 thousand tests are being done daily. There was no corona infection before in rural areas. Later, something has increased. Mitanins here have done well in preventing corona infection. There has been an increase in the number of oxygen facility beds and ICU beds in hospitals. All medical colleges have RTPCR facility. Four new labs have been established for testing. After the month of October, there has been a decline in the new caso of Corona. The corona caso has decreased by 50 percent. No reduction in testing has been done. He said that in the month of July there were 4 percent positive cases in the state, 8 percent in August, 15 percent in September, 10.5 percent in October, 7 percent in November. Death rate was one percent in October-November. The Chief Minister said that initially there were very few cases of corona in Chhattisgarh, but the infection increased due to those coming from other states. He said that oxygen plots would be set up in medical colleges.

    Health Minister Shri T.S. Singhdev, Home Minister Shri Tamradhwaj Sahu, Chief Secretary Shri RP Mandal, Director General of Police Shri DM. Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister Mr. Subrata Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary Health Mrs. Renuji Pillay, Director of National Health Mission Dr. Priyanka Shukla and Director Health Mr. Neeraj Bansod were present.