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On 20 August 2021, India granted emergency authorization to Zydus Cadila's vaccine ZyCoV-D, the world's first DNA plasmid-based COVID-19 vaccine, for patients 12 and older. India granted emergency use approval to the world's first DNA based COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by for adults and children aged 12 years and above. The vaccine is ...
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
The first cases of COVID-19 in India were reported on 30 January 2020 in three towns of Kerala, among three Indian medical students who had returned from Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Lockdowns were announced in Kerala on 23 March, and in the rest of the country on 25 March.
Undercounting of cases and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in India is not unique to the country. [ 26 ] [ 19 ] Journalists, [ 27 ] mathematicians, [ 11 ] epidemiologists, [ 28 ] statisticians, and scientists have attempted, [ 29 ] according to their expertise, to arrive at a truer number of the actual cases and deaths.
This is a general overview and status of places affected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus which causes coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, the capital of the province of Hubei in China in December 2019. It ...
On 21 February 2022, Drugs Controller General of India granted approval to Biological E's COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax, that can be used for children between 12 and 18 years of age. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 21 October 2021, India completed administering of one billion Covid vaccines in the country.
The first death due to COVID-19 in the country occurred on 15 March. [302] Turkey stood out from the rest of Europe by not ordering a legal lockdown [note 2] [303] until April 2021, when the country enacted its first nationwide restrictions. [304] The government kept many businesses open, and allowed companies to set their own guidelines for ...
On 3 November 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) validated the vaccine for emergency use, as the first Indian-developed covid vaccine to be approved. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By 31 January 2022, Covaxin had been granted emergency use approval in 13 countries.