Corona virus: Vaccine Started In India From Today, What Is The Important Stop In The Fight Against Corona

The first case of Corona virus infection in India was reported on January 30, 2020

In Thrissur, Kerala. The next day, on 31 January, the World Health Organization declared the Corona virus an international disaster of global concern.

Now, after almost a year and after about one crore cases, India is going to start the world’s largest vaccination program from Saturday i.e. January 16, 2021.

The last one year in the fight against Corona virus in India has been full of ups and downs.

During this time, the country was immersed in deep despair, and at some times, strong hopes of victory were won in the fight against this epidemic.

Initiation of vaccination: the most important step

Scientist AK Ganguly , former director of ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), considers this to be the most important phase of the fight.

Says Ganguly, “This is the first stop of a long battle with which hopes of India’s economic recovery are connected.”

 Now this is the first phase and if we are successful in this and can give people the option to choose the vaccine then we can say that our fight against Corona has become stronger. ”

The case of corona virus infection was first reported in Wuhan, China. Officials confirmed the new virus case in Wuhan in December 2019 itself.

By February, countries around the world started bringing back their citizens from China.

India also airlifted 759 of its citizens from China on 27 February. Also, 43 foreign nationals were also brought from China.

By March, the virus was spreading rapidly around the world. For prevention, India started screening of people coming from abroad on 6 March.

Corona virus : Lockdown on migrant workers

The Corona virus was locked in India. After the announcement of the Prime Minister, the work stopped all over the country.

People were imprisoned in their homes. Thousands of workers started returning to their homes on foot. Some reached his home after walking thousands of kilometers.

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New strain of Corona virus spreading in India, symptoms found in 20 people returned from UK

The new Corona virus has also reached India

A new strain of Corona virus is seen spreading in India. So far, a new strain of virus has been found in 20 passengers who returned from the United Kingdom.

Earlier in the day, 6 similar cases were reported from different parts of the country

6 passengers returned from Britain have been found infected with Corona strain.

When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was asked if the national capital was ready to deal with the of Corona,

He assured the people of Delhi that Delhi was ready to deal with the new strain of Corona.

On Tuesday, a new strain of corona virus was found in a 2-year-old girl in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.

The girl’s family returned from Britain, after which her parents, including the girl, were found to be Corona positive.

However, the new strain is found only in a two-year-old girl.

On Wednesday, cases of new corona strains were reported in labs in Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad.

Let us tell you that this new strain of Corona started from Britain is seventy percent more destructive than the existing virus.

However, on the very last day, the Health Ministry has assured that the corona vaccine is effective on this strain as well, so there is no need to panic.

Nearly 30,000 people have returned from the UK in the last one month in India, out of which more than hundred covids have been found positive.

All have been kept in isolation and scavenging is being done.

Corona virus has caught more than one crore people in the country so far.

In these cases, if we look at the age and condition, the maximum 51% of the infected patients are young men, in which the death rate from corona is recorded at 11%.

If we look at the age, 8 percent of patients under 17 years of age have been found.

While 13 per cent of the patients are aged 18 to 25 and 39 per cent of the patients are aged between 26 and 44 years.

Combining these two classes together, about 51 percent of corona infected patients in the country are young men.

At the same time, in the age group of 45 to 60 and over 60, 26 and 14 percent of corona have been found respectively.

Corona virus : 70 percent of those who die

So far, over 1.48 lakh people have died from Corona. Among them, 70 percent were male and 30 percent were female.

The mortality rate in patients aged 17 years or below has been recorded at one percent while the death rate from 18 to 44 years has been 13 percent.

In the age group of 45 to 60 years, 33 and 55 percent of the people have died respectively.

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