LIVE: Vaccine hesitancy is a personal issue not a population level issue, says Union health ministry

Goa aims to inoculate all healthcare workers by February 12, the state government said on Tuesday, reported news agency ANI.

Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 2515 new cases of Covid-19, taking the country wide tally to 20,48,802. In the last 24 hours 35 deaths were also reported, the death toll currently stands at 51,360, reported news agency ANI.

UK health minister Matt Hancock told Reuters that international passengers arriving in UK will be escorted to hotels and quarantined for 10 days or longer. He also said that the country is in the process of ramping up testing facilities for international passengers.

The Union health ministry during a press briefing on Tuesday said citing data that 6.3 million people have embraced the vaccine, adding that if so many people take the vaccine in a country then vaccine hesitancy is not a population level issue but rather a personal one. The ministry also said that the goal of 100 percent satisfaction rate has been achieved.

The Union health ministry said on Tuesday that the meeting of the national AEFI committee took place in February 5, two cases were diagnosed as anaphylaxes. Deaths were found to be not related to vaccination. The histopathology and chemical analysis reports have been sought from the concerned state governments. A template is being built on this which will be put into the public domain as soon as possible.

The Union health ministry says healthcare workers who could not come for the scheduled vaccination sessions should be given a mop-up round to get vaccinated by March 6. States and UTs have been advised to be scheduled for vaccinated at least once by March 2021. Those who do not appear for the mop-up rounds will have to be relegated to the age appropriate rounds.

The Ethiopian health minister told news agency Reuters that the country has secured 9 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine till April. Adding that he hopes it would be enough to inoculate at least a fifth of total population of 110 million by the end of 2021.

Indian Army is training dogs like labradors, Chippiparai, and Cocker Spaniels to detect Covid-19 through urine and sweat samples, reported news agency ANI. Colonel Surender Saini told the agency that based on the samples tested till date the sensitivity levels of the canines is as high as 95 per cent.

There is no provision of insurance for recipients of Covid-19 vaccine against any kind of side effects or medical complications that may arise due to the inoculation, Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday, reports PTI.

Russia reported 15,019 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, including 1,584 in Moscow, taking the national tally to 3,998,216 since the pandemic began, reports Reuters.

India's government has ordered 10 million more doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India, a company spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday, reports Reuters.

One more person tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh, pushing the total caseload in the state to 16,831, a senior health department official said on Tuesday, reports PTI.

CanSino Biologics Inc.’s experimental coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 65.7% at preventing symptomatic cases based on an analysis from late-stage trials, adding a one-shot candidate to the world’s growing arsenal against Covid-19, reports Bloomberg.

Greece has received the first batch of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and will begin vaccinations on February 15, the country's Health Ministry Secretary General for Primary Health Care Marios Themistokleous said at a ministry briefing, reports ANI.

Thane has reported 200 new cases of coronavirus, raising the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 2,55,949,an official said on Tuesday, reports PTI.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 3,379 to 2,291,924, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday, reports Reuters.

Mizoram's Covid-19 tally rose to 4,386 on Tuesday as three more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said, reports PTI

India on Tuesday registered 9,110 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases and 78 more related deaths which pushed the overall tally to over 10.8 million, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard. The active cases have further declined to 143,625 while 10,548,521 people have recovered till now. This is the fifth time that the country’s daily death count went below the 100-mark.

Jharkhand added 38 fresh coronavirus (Covid-19) disease cases on Tuesday which pushed the overall tally to 119,055. No fresh deaths were reported today, a health official told news agency PTI adding that 123,754 health workers have been administered Covid-19 vaccines doses till now.

United States transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg will quarantine for 14 days after a member of his security detail tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday. The agent had been “in close contact” with Buttigieg, including Monday morning prior to the agent's positive result, the Transportation Department said in a statement, reports AP.

Manipur reported three coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in the last 24 hours which pushed the tally to 4,386. A total of 4,353 people have been discharged while there are 27 active cases.