Sputnik Light is a single-dose version of Sputnik V vax
A man reacts while receiving a vaccine dose at a drive-in centre in Trivandrum on Wednesday. Pic/PTI
“Interim analysis can be conducted on Day 42 as this data was generated during the Sputnik V trials in India after the first dose, which was stated to be available up to day 21,” reads the minutes of the SEC meeting.
The DGCI had granted emergency-use approval to Sputnik V in April.
Active cases down further
India recorded 27,176 fresh COVID-19 cases and 284 fatalities, while the active cases dropped further to 3,51,087, according to the Union health ministry’s data updated on Wednesday morning. The active caseload reduced by 11,120 in a span of 24 hours.
Meanwhile, INSACOG, the genome sequencing consortium, has said that no cases of Mu and C.1.2 SARS-CoV-2 variants have not been found in India as yet. The Delta variant and its sub-lineages continue to the main Variants of Concern in the country, it added.
‘India top source of social media misinformation’
India produced the largest amount of social media misinformation on COVID-19 due to its higher internet penetration rate, according to a new study. The study, ‘Prevalence and Source Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation in 138 Countries’, analysed 9,657 pieces of misinform-ation that originated in 138 nations. They were fact-
checked by 94 organisat-ions. “Of all the countries, India (18.07 per cent) produced the largest amount of social media misinformation,” it said. The results also showed that India (15.94 per cent), the US (9.74 per cent), Brazil (8.57 per cent) and Spain (8.03 per cent) are the four most misinf-ormation-affected nations.
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