According to health ministry records as of Sunday, July 25, the Centre has distributed at least 453 million Covid vaccine doses across the country. Over 17,000 new cases were reported in Kerala, bringing the total number of infections to 3,271,530. Government data also revealed that nearly half of India’s Covid deaths since April 2020 occurred in just two months this year, in April and May, underscoring the devastation caused by the second wave.
The states and Union Territories had received 453,770,580 as of Sunday morning. There were 420,832,021 doses consumed in total, including wastages. There are still 32,938,559 balance and unused vaccine doses available with the states/UTs.
Meanwhile, according to Worldometer data, Indonesia recorded 45,416 new Covid cases on Sunday, surpassing Brazil, India, and the United States in terms of new infections. During the same time period, there were 38,091 Covid-19 cases reported in Brazil, 39,742 in India, and 37,245 in the United States. With 3,166,505 cases and 83,279 fatalities, Indonesia is still far behind the top countries in terms of total infections and deaths.
According to a recent study, embryos as young as five days old can develop receptors that allow the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, to easily pass through. The Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health conducted the research on 45 human embryos donated after IVF procedures at fertility clinics.
The findings suggest that embryos can become infected with Covid-19 in the womb from infected mothers and also during IVF procedures in laboratories, increasing the risk of miscarriage or even failure to conceive in both natural and IVF-induced pregnancy, according to the researchers.
