A Mayo Clinic study peered at the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines between January and July.
He urged people to tell politicians and business tycoons that it was electorally and financially safe to increase vaccine coverage in poorer nations.
The Minister said that this move will help ramp up availability of the indigenous vaccine to speed up the national vaccination drive.
"Bengaluru is showing an uptick in numbers in recent days. It is not a good thing for us and it is something we need to be aware of if we do not want to go back to April and May," MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.
Amidst the fear of a 3rd Covid wave in Karnataka, Dakshina Kannada district is already showing signs of distress. The district not only borders with Covid hotspot Kerala but also tops infection and Covid death list. 438 new infections and 6 deaths were reported on Sunday.
Vaccinated individuals can now get access to their vaccination certificate through the MyGov Corona Helpdesk in three simple steps.
The study noted vaccination using a combination of an adenovirus vector platform-based vaccine and an inactivated whole-virus vaccine elicited better immunogenicity.
The Kerala government is said to have issued fresh guidelines that all shop goers have to show the latest Covid-19 certificates at public places like grocery stores and other shops. The move comes after a spike in cases from the last few weeks.
With Bengaluru city reporting over 400 cases from the last 4 days, fear of spike and lockdown is looming large on Bengalureans. BBMP, the civic agency which ruled out the severity, however, confirmed that if the cases go up, it will go for strict containment measures.
India has so far approved four vaccines - AstraZeneca's Covishield, Bharati Biotech's Covaxin, Russian Gamaleya Institute's Sputnik V and Moderna's vaccine.
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