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Poonawalla said on Saturday vaccination programme East Midnapore recorded a Total 61,187 cases were The country has seen the that the company has begun launched on January 16. turnout of 80.51 per cent while reported from across the coun- sharpest rise in weekly Covid- the phase 2 and 3 clinical tri- The phase 2 and 3 bridg- in neighbouring West try in last 24 hours, while 19 cases and fatalities since als for Covovax and hoped to ing study for Covovax has Midnapore it was 80.12 per Maharashtra alone reported May 2020 ie 7.7 per cent and launch the vaccine by begun at one of the four clin- cent. Jhargram witnessed a 5.1 per cent respectively. And September. ical trial sites in Pune on polling of 80.55 per cent where- it has been noted that one “Covovax trials finally Thursday, and soon enrol- as voter turnout in Purulia was infected person could spread begin in India; the vaccine is ment of participants is to start a tad low at 77.07 per cent, fol- * O Covid-19 to an average of 406 made through a partnership at other sites, the SII said. lowed by Bankura where about 5 67 859 other individuals in a 30-day with (US’) Novavax and Serum On 30 January, after the !" 79.90 per cent voters + :88 window without restrictions Institute of India... Hope to announcement of the first had exercised their voting ; :< 75 which could be reduced to just launch by September 2021!” interim efficacy data by rights. leader and Contai Municipality the TMC men had driven out under the leadership of TMC ! 15 by decreasing physical expo- Poonawalla tweeted on Novavax, the CEO of the Incidents of violence were chairman, recently joined the our polling agent and were giv- block president Ram Govind =6 978 sure to 50 per cent and to a fur- Saturday. world’s largest vaccine manu- reported from Salboni region of BJP like his elder brother and ing false votes… This angered Das and his wife, a panchayat ther 2.5 (average) by decreas- Presently SII manufac- facturer had said that it hopes West Midnapore and Sabajpur their father Sisir Adhikari, the the TMC goons and they van- pradhan, as my arrival to the ing physical exposure to 75 per tured Covishield and Bharat to launch the vaccine by of South Contai seat in East local MP. dalised my car and beat up my area failed their plans to rig cent. Biotech Ltd’s Covaxin are June. Midnapore district where the “I had rushed to a booth driver,” he said. polling, Adhikari said. #; vehicle of Soumendu Adhikari, after receiving complaints that The attack was carried out At Salboni former Bengal :< the youngest brother of BJP Minister and CPI(M) candidate +7>7>9$9 leader Suvendu Adhikari, was was Sushanto Ghosh twice 6$: vandalised and his driver badly attacked and heckled by alleged ) $% & beaten up by alleged Trinamool Trinamool men when he tried ! Congress supporters. to stop them from capturing ? Soumendu, a former TMC &121/3* booths. ' voter turnout of 72.14 per Acent was recorded in Assam on Saturday in the first R phase of Assembly elections in R the State, the Election Commission said. Voting was held in 47 seats in Assam in this phase with a &121/3* total of 81 lakh electorate reg- istered across 11,537 polling eports of Covid-19 re- stations. There are total 21,825 !# Rinfection despite vaccina- L polling stations. On Saturday, ## " " '/')) tion have started trickling in M ! a total of 582 cases of Model from various parts of the coun- # Code of Conduct violations engal Chief Minister try. Two health workers in $ were reported through the BMamata Banerjee on Mathura district in Uttar cVIGIL app from Assam out of Saturday attacked Prime Pradesh on Saturday reported which 423 were disposed of by the Covid-19 pandemic. Minister Narendra Modi alleg- testing positive for coronavirus 4.30 pm. Till date, 97.31crore As a major push in con- ing that he has politicised his despite having been adminis- # !" %& has been seized in Assam (as ducting free and fair elections, Bangladesh visit at a time when tered both doses of the anti- ' against a total seizure of 16.58 live monitoring and webcasting elections are being held in this Covid vaccine. of the Covishield vaccine on from 70 to 75 per cent. )**+ crore in 2016 Assembly polls). mechanism for more than 50 part of the border. Similarly, Director of January 16, 2021. “Vaccination has been going on ! The poll panel said it had per cent of polling stations, Mamata said, “He (PM) is $( ( Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate After a 28-day gap, he in a big way across the coun- ! laid great emphasis on ensur- including critical and vulner- going to Bangladesh during the Institute of Medical Sciences reportedly took a second shot try for decades. Vaccination is ing transparent and vigilant able polling booths, were put in elections and issuing state- ) * !" (SGPGI), Lucknow, Professor on February 13. not always 100 per cent effec- !% - $ mechanisms for conducting place to ensure safe and secure ments on Bengal... it is a vio- Radha Krishan Dhiman, has Earlier, another doctor tive,” they said. elections that are free of atmosphere in polling areas. lation of MCC.” going to Bangladesh with an tested positive for the infection. posted at Shyama Prasad According to experts, low inducement and intimidation. The Commission, state Reminding how the visa of intent to influence a section of Prof Dhiman, who has taken Mukherjee Civil Hospital in immunity of the beneficiary The number of polling sta- chief electoral officers, district a Bangla actor acting in Bengali voters — residing in both doses of vaccine against Lucknow, Nitin Mishra, shared and high virus load suppress- ! )-.+/)) tions had increased as the election officers and the tele serials was cancelled — at Bengal — when the elections coronavirus, shared on that he had tested positive ing antibodies could also be & 0! number of voters per polling observers could watch live BJP’s behest — during 2019 are taking place here … why Facebook recently that he and days after taking the second factors behind someone testing ! station was reduced from 1,500 streaming and keep a close Lok Sabha polls, after he joined should your visa not be can- his wife, Dr Praveena, were dose of vaccination. positive for Covid-19 even + to 1,000 keeping social dis- watch on these polling booths a TMC rally, Mamata said, celled? We will raise the issue infected two days ago. Experts said that the suc- after taking both shots against +# $ tancing norms in mind due to in Assam. “You (Prime Minister) are with the EC. He had taken the first dose cess rate of vaccines varies the virus. QR R 109 life-saving ambulances to Infrastructure Development "P his counterpart Hasina. for Power Evacuation Facilities &121/3* He also handed over a rep- of Rooppur Nuclear Power -(. resentational box as a symbol Plant. ealth Minister Satyendar of India’s gift of 1.2 million The MoUs signed were on HJain on Saturday dismissed Covid vaccine doses to Disaster Management, any possibility of imposing Bangladesh. Resilience and Mitigation; another lockdown in Delhi, Hasina presented a gold cooperation between saying it was not a solution to "/!0 and a silver coin released on the Bangladesh National Cadet check the spread of the coron- occasion of the birth centenary Corps (BNCC) and National avirus that is again surging. of her father Bangabandhu Cadet Corps (NCC) and estab- Jain said, “As of now, there Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to lishment of a Framework of is no possibility of another Modi. She also handed over a Cooperation in the Area of lockdown. We had tried it ear- silver coin released on the Trade Remedial Measures. lier. Experts had said due to its occasion of the 50th anniver- The supply of ICT equip- 14-day cycle, a 21-day lock- 3)') sary of Bangladesh’s ment, courseware and reference down would stop the spread of Independence.