Most vaccinated countries in the world have seen surges in Covid cases and hospitalisations linked to the delta strain.
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India has so far administered 478,544,114 vaccine doses. That is 1508.34 per cent of its total caseload, and 34.31 per cent of its population
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The domestically developed Covaxin is effective against the Delta plus variant of Covid-19, claims Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in its study released on Monday.
Delta has broken through the country's virus defenses, which are some of the strictest in the world, and reached nearly half of China's 32 provinces in a number of weeks.
Daily cases have grown persistently through July in Kerala and a few smaller north-eastern states
The highly contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 has raised major concerns in China as it spread to 18 provinces with fresh cases emerging in capital Beijing on Sunday.
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India has so far administered 456,033,754 vaccine doses. That is 1444.4 per cent of its total caseload, and 32.7 per cent of its population
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Officials have confirmed that the new outbreak is caused by the Delta strain
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A four-day weekend to celebrate the opening of the sports spectacle is also likely to have led to a backlog of testing
India has so far administered 435,196,001 vaccine doses. That is 1385.47 per cent of its total caseload, and 31.21 per cent of its population
India averages 109 vaccinations per site and the UK 126. It has fully vaccinated only 6 per cent of its population, as against 53 per cent in the UK
Coronavirus live updates: India's daily test positivity rate, which is percentage of people who test positive for Covid-19 compared to those who were tested, stays below 5%.
The delta variant has some characteristics that give it a better chance of causing an infection, which means it escapes initial shield provided by antibodies, but vaccinated people are at a lower risk