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“Vaccination of children is not recommended by vaccine companies. But in some countries, children are vaccinated,” said Yagut Garayeva, head of the Disease Prevention and Control Department of TABIB at the briefing of the Task Force under the Cabinet of Ministers today, APA reports.

According to her, there is not a decision in Azerbaijan in this regard yet: “If any decision will be adopted by international organizations related to the issue, it will be applied in Azerbaijan too.”

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency

54455 people have been vaccinated against a new coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in Azerbaijan today, the Task Force under the Cabinet of Ministers told APA.

The number of people vaccinated at the first stage of vaccination is 43046, at the second stage is 11409.

The total number of vaccines in the country is 6045471,., the total number of people vaccinated in the first phase is 3617203 and the number of people vaccinated in the second phase is 2428268.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency

3,968 new cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in Azerbaijan, while 1,151 patients have been recovered, the Task Force under the Cabinet of Ministers told APA.

According to the Task Force, 21 deaths cases were reported.“The overall confirmed cases in Azerbaijan have reached 384,886 with 343,407 recoveries and 5,252 deaths, while treatment of 36,227 others is underway.

total of 4,285,883 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the country so far.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency

India’s drug regulator has approved the world’s first DNA vaccine against Covid-19 for emergency use, APA reports citing BBC.

The three-dose ZyCoV-D vaccine prevented symptomatic disease in 66% of those vaccinated, according to an interim study quoted by the vaccine maker Cadila Healthcare.

The firm plans to make up to 120 million doses of India’s second home-grown vaccine every year.

Previous DNA vaccines have worked well in animals but not humans.

India has so far given more than 570 million doses of three previously approved vaccines – Covishield, Covaxin and Sputnik V.

About 13% of adults have been fully vaccinated and 47% have received at least one shot since the beginning of the drive in January.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency

India’s drug regulator has granted emergency use approval for Zydus Cadila’s COVID-19 vaccine, the world’s first DNA shot against the coronavirus, in adults and children aged 12 years and above, APA reports citing Reuters.

The approval gives a boost to India’s vaccination programme, which aims to inoculate all eligible adults by December, and will provide the first shot for those under 18, as the country still struggles to contain the virus spread in some states.

The vaccine, ZyCoV-D, uses a section of genetic material from the virus that gives instructions as either DNA or RNA to make the specific protein that the immune system recognises and responds to.

Unlike most COVID-19 vaccines, which need two doses or even a single dose, ZyCoV-D is administered in three doses.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency