{"id":330320,"date":"2021-01-18T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330320"},"modified":"2021-01-18T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:04:55","slug":"over-3-8-lakh-beneficiaries-vaccinated-till-date-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/over-3-8-lakh-beneficiaries-vaccinated-till-date-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 3.8 lakh beneficiaries vaccinated till date: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304815 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/vaccination.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/vaccination.jpg 693w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/vaccination-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/vaccination-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/vaccination-582x420.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/>More than 3.8 lakh beneficiaries have been vaccinated for COVID-19 till January 18, even as 580 adverse events following immunisation were reported in the country, the Union health ministry said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe third day of the massive countrywide COVID-19 vaccination program was also conducted successfully. Total of 3,81,305 beneficiaries have been vaccinated till today through 7,704 sessions, as per the provisional report,\u201d the Ministry said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry further said an Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI) is any unexpected medical occurrence which follows immunization. It may or may not be related to the vaccine or vaccination process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">580 cases of AEFI have been reported so far. Out of these, seven have required hospitalization. Of the three cases reported from Delhi, two have been discharged whereas one case with reporting fainting is under observation at Max Hospital, Patparganj, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reported case of AEFI in Uttarakhand is stable and under observation at AIIMS, Rishikesh.\u00a0 In Chhattisgarh, one person is under observation at the Govt. Medical College, Rajnandgaon, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the two cases of AEFI in Karnataka, one is under observation at District Hospital, Chitradurga and the second person is under observation at General Hospital, Challakere, Chitradurga, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3.8 lakh beneficiaries have been vaccinated for COVID-19 till January 18, even as 580 adverse events following immunisation were reported in the country, the Union health ministry said on Monday. \u201cThe third day of the massive countrywide COVID-19 vaccination program was also conducted successfully. Total of 3,81,305 beneficiaries have been vaccinated till today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13857,4903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330321,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330320\/revisions\/330321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}