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NEW DELHI, 4 Feb:<\/strong> Vaccine effectiveness of 99.3 percent has been seen in individuals fully inoculated against the coronavirus, according to the data uploaded on India Covid-19 Tracker till 2 January, the Lok Sabha was told on Friday.<\/p>\n Responding to a question, union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has developed the India Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker by merging mainly three national databases – CoWIN, National Covid-19 testing database and Covid-19 India portal.<\/p>\n The tracker depicts vaccine effectiveness against death – the ability of vaccines to reduce death – using person time analysis from 12 April, 2021 to 2 January, 2022.<\/p>\n “The tracker is updated periodically and displays the effectiveness of partial and full vaccination against Covid-19. The latest data analyzed and uploaded till 2 January, 2022 depicts vaccine effectiveness of 99.3 percent in fully vaccinated individuals against Covid-19,” Mandaviya said in a written reply.<\/p>\n The data are analyzed and presented as per the reports submitted by respective state governments. The Omicron variant is the dominant variant in the country presently.<\/p>\n Whole genome sequencing for the Omicron variant is done for all RT-PCR positive samples from international travellers arriving since 28 November, 2021. Further, for in-country sequencing RT-PCR positive samples having CT value of less than 25 are referred from sentinel sites in various states regularly, Mandaviya said.<\/p>\n “The government of India is supporting states in their endeavour to manage Covid-19 since the beginning of pandemic. Given the emergence of mutated variants with variable impact on transmissibility, virulence and effectiveness of vaccines, likelihood of resurgence of Covid-19 trajectory in the country is monitored by various expert committees under Indian Council of Medical Research, directorate general of health services and other relevant ministries and departments,” he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW DELHI, 4 Feb: Vaccine effectiveness of 99.3 percent has been seen in individuals fully inoculated against the coronavirus, according to the data uploaded on India Covid-19 Tracker till 2 January, the Lok Sabha was told on Friday. Responding to a question, union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}