New
Delhi (ABC Live India): The Day 276 Report of COVID-19: Today was the 276 day
of India’s Fight against Coronavirus: ABC Research Report.
As
per the Ministry of Health and Family welfare till 8 AM of 25/12/2020, there
are 281919 active cases, 9717834 COVID-19 patients have been discharged and 147092
persons lost their lives in India till 8 AM of 25/12/2020.
On
the testing of the capacity of India, the ICMR in its daily report on 25/12/2020
that a total of 16,63,05,762 have been conducted in India till 9 AM of 24/12/2020.
Further, the ICMR reported that 9,97,396 new samples were taken during the last
24 hours.
The
Following is the List of Actions/ announcements made by the Government of India
along with Updates from Indian Courts of law, NHRC, RBI, SEBI, TRAI & IRDA
on 25/12/2020
1.
The Prime Minister's Office released the text of PM's address at the
disbursement of PM-KISAN instalment
2.
The Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare issued Updates on COVID-19
3.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated that as
a step to prep up for administration of COVID-19 vaccine, and to assess the
readiness of the planned activities, a dry run has been planned in four states
to start with, viz. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Punjab considering the
geographical locations.
4.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated that The
National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration of COVID-19 (NEGVAC) has
recommended three prioritised population groups including Healthcare Workers (HCWs) (about 1 crore),
Frontline Workers (FLWs) (about 2 crore), and Prioritized Age Group (about 27
crore). As vaccines are temperature
sensitive and need to be stored in specific temperature, the present cold chain
system consisting of 85,634 equipments for storage of vaccine at about 28,947
cold chain points across the country will be used for the cold chain
administration. The current cold chain is capable of storing additional
quantity of Covid-19 vaccine required for the first 3 Crore prioritised
population i.e Health Care Workers and Front Line Workers.
5.
The ICMR
issued testing Updates of India for 24/12/2020 for detailed Updates Click
Here
6.
The RBI
released the Bulletin Weekly Statistical Supplement – Extract
7.
The PIB did
not release PIB’S DAILY BULLETIN ON COVID-19 today.
