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Covid: Vaccinations for adolescents start in India, there are 253 million

2022-01-03T08:42:24.694Z


India has started vaccinating children between the ages of 15 and 18 against Covid. According to Unicef, this is 253 million people, the largest vaccination campaign in the world. In the country in 24 hours a new record of infections. Cases on the decline in Xi'an, a new expicenter of the infection in China (ANSA)


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has begun to vaccinate against Covid boys between 15 and 18 years. According to Unicef, this is 253 million people, the largest population of adolescents in the world. The Ministry of Health, reports the Guardian, has specified that the boys will be given two doses of Covaxin at a distance of 28 days from each other. "The largest vaccination campaign in the world has begun. If the kids are safe, our country's future is safe," tweeted Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. India has recorded an additional 33,750 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, a record since September 18, and 123 deaths.

Coronavirus cases are still falling in Xi'an (north), the metropolis in

China

of 13 million inhabitants that has become the new epicenter of the infection in the country with over 1,600 infections since last December 9: 90 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours against 122 the previous day, a level that was already down from 174 infections a week ago.

Meanwhile, authorities removed two senior Communist Party officials in Yanta district to "strengthen epidemic prevention and control work" in the area.

Last month, the Chinese disciplinary body announced that dozens of officials had been punished for "insufficient rigor in preventing and controlling the epidemic".


Source: ansa

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