India has the world's biggest vaccine producing capacity but is suffering a devastating second wave of coronavirus infections - just as supplies of Covid-19 vaccines for its huge population are running low.
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The start was sluggish due to logistical issues and vaccine hesitancy among the population – especially toward Covaxin, which was approved for emergency use before the efficacy data of its third phase trial were released.Īs of Wednesday evening local time, 150,020,648 vaccine doses had been administered in IndiaĪ health worker inoculates a man with a dose of the Covishield vaccine for Covid-19 at the Railway Hospital in Prayagraj, India, on April 28 Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP India kickstarted its vaccination program in January for health care workers and priority groups, hoping to fully inoculate 300 million people by August. local time, a further 4.15 million have registered to receive vaccinations. India is administering two vaccines domestically: the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot, also known as Covishield, and its homegrown Covaxin, developed jointly by Bharat Biotech and the government-run Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).ĬoWIN opened for registrations on Wednesday. Dar Yasin/APĪbout 13.3 million people applied for Covid-19 vaccinations in India on Thursday, the first day the vaccine was made available to everyone between the ages 18 and 44, according to the government's dedicated vaccination website, CoWIN. Syringes filled with COVISHIELD vaccine for COVID-19 lie on ice box at a primary health center in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on April 28. The death toll in Germany has risen by 264, according to RKI data, bringing the total number of Covid-19 deaths to 82,544. The move comes as Germany reported an increase of 24,736 new coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours on Thursday, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany's national agency for disease and control prevention. The movement - whose name means “thinking outside the box” - have been protesting anti-lockdown measures since the start of the pandemic and have ties to the far right.ĭuring anti-lockdown protests, members frequently clashed with police and attacked members of the media. “Right wing extremists are trying to take control - and what we cannot tolerate at all is violence,” the interior minister said at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday.
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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said the Querdenker movement has already shown a willingness to use violence and warned that extremists were “trying to take control of the movement.” In a statement, Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) said they are focusing on members of the ''Querdenker'' movement which promotes coronavirus scepticism, conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine rhetoric. Germany’s intelligence service said on Wednesday it would put some members of the country’s anti-lockdown movement under surveillance as concerns grow that their movement is attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the state.