Covid19 updates: 30,093 cases registered in last 24 hours

30,093 new covid positive cases are registered in the last 24 hours in India. It is the lowest in 125 days, as per Health Ministry’s recent data. An affidavit has been filed by the Kerala government in the Supreme Court, stating the decision for relaxation has been taken to alleviate the suffering of traders as they had stocked goods before Eid. State told SC that only limited relaxations have been given and authorities have been vaccinating aggressively and all Covid 19 protocols are followed in the markets. 

Vaccination against Covid19

"World Health Organisation (WHO) officials had a meeting with the Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Bharat Biotech and its dossier for Emergency Use Listing (EUL) of Covaxin is under review by technical experts for consideration", Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia said. 

The WHO Regional Director said: “Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, Sinovac and Sinopharm have been granted EUL by the WHO. For COVXIN, an expression of interest for EUL has been made to WHO by Bharat Biotech. WHO has already conducted a pre-submission meeting with the company following which a dossier has been submitted by Bharat Biotech to WHO in early July. The dossier is currently under review by the technical experts for consideration of EUL.”

Amid vaccine shortage, India has been offered 7.5 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX global vaccine sharing programme, but it is not clear when the jabs will arrive in the country as a consensus on the indemnity clause is yet to be reached, reported by News18.

The government last week said that it is working actively with vaccine manufacturer Moderna to see how its vaccine can be made available in the country. Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine was granted emergency use authorisation by India’s drug regulator last month. “India has been offered 7.5 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX global vaccine sharing programme,” a source told news agency PTI. 

Lockdown in Assam

"Five districts of Assam will continue to be under total lockdown owing to their high COVID-19 positivity rate while the movement of people to and from other districts across the state will remain suspended", state Health Minister Keshab Mahanta said. The five districts in Assam where lockdown will continue include Jorhat, Golaghat, Sonitpur, Biswanath, and Lakhimpur – along with two others, were declared as total containment zones on July 7 for showing a high Covid-19 positivity rate.