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Family of Bengaluru man, who died of Covid-19 eight months ago, gets ‘fully jabbed’ message

Family of Bengaluru man, who died of Covid-19 eight months ago, gets ‘fully jabbed’ message

TNN | Dec 15, 2021, 03.46 AM IST

BENGALURU: The wife of a 77-year-old man from South Bengaluru was in for a shock when she received a message congratulating the latter for being fully vaccinated against Covid-19, eight months after his death. A message from Co-Win stated that he got fully jabbed on December 9.

Sreekantaiah Seetharaman had taken his first dose on March 10. He was due for the second dose in May, as the interdose interval was 4-6 weeks for Covishield at that time. In between, he contracted Covid and died on April 8. “This could be a bogus entry done in my father’s name which is highly questionable,” his son Vishwanath S told TOI.

“This is nothing but the government’s ways to inflate the vaccination coverage. To a man who died due to Covid, the government has sent a message saying he’s fully vaccinated against the disease! If it was a data entry error, how did it match his name and the registered phone number?” the family members questioned.

Incidentally, Seetharaman’s 75-year-old wife had taken the first dose on March 1 and the second dose in August. The couple had used the same phone number for their Co-Win registration. She was not given any certificate during her second dose vaccination at an apartment saying there were technical issues. She also received a message from Co-Win on December 8 that she had taken the second dose on the day. “There is definitely a goof-up. While we hadn’t bothered much about her vaccination certificate when she took it in August, she has now got a message saying she was fully vaccinated on December 8,” the family members said.

As per the vaccination certificates, the couple got their doses at a centre falling under the Kumarswamy Layout urban primary health centre. “There is a code mentioned in the certificate, which we don’t know if it was the same as the vaccination centre in an apartment where they got jabbed,” a family member said.

TOI has a copy of the vaccination certificate and the messages received by Seetharaman’s family.

Dr Arundhathi Chandrasekhar, mission director, National Health Mission, Karnataka, said the matter will be investigated. “We will look into this,” she added.

She said a similar case of a dead person getting a message about being fully vaccinated was reported in Tumakuru recently and when checked, it was found out to be a data entry error. “The error had crept in while typing a phone number. We also checked the number of doses administered by the nurse and it matched with the number of persons vaccinated. There was an error in the data entry, where there was a wrong entry of two digits. It was an entry against a wrong person’s name,” she added.

Dr Chandrasekhar said currently, healthcare workers are visiting houses for vaccination.

“At home or near home vaccination drives are going on. The workers note down the names, contact details of the beneficiaries and enter the details on the Co-Win portal when they return to their offices,” she said.

Unvaccinated account for 92% Covid deaths in 2022: ICMR

Unvaccinated account for 92% Covid deaths in 2022: ICMR

TNN | Mar 4, 2022, 03.17 AM IST

NEW DELHI: Unvaccinated people accounted for nearly 92% of Covid-19 deaths this year, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava said on Thursday citing data from Covid vaccine tracker.

Among fully vaccinated people, only 10.2% succumbed to Covid-19 and 91% of these fully vaccinated who died had co-morbidities. Besides, 21.8% of the people who died were partially vaccinated and 83% had co-morbidities.

Underlining that vaccination aided Covid management in India while many countries are still reeling under the rising number of Omicron infected Covid-19 cases, officials said deaths reduced significantly during the third surge dominated by the Omicron variant.

The case fatality rate (CFR) dropped to 0.35% during third surge (from January 4 to February 14, 2022), against 1.29% during second surge (March 21 to July 14, 2021) led by Delta infection which was highly lethal while vaccination coverage was very low at that time.

At the start of the second surge in 2021, only 10.1% of eligible population were partially vaccinated while 2.1% were fully vaccinated with two doses. On the other hand, during the third surge, 90.83% of adults were partially vaccinated and 65.4% were fully vaccinated against the infection.

“We are in a vaccine-protected low corona stage. That is why it is rational to open schools and businesses and carry on the affairs of society. However, the responsibility is to ensure that surveillance is intact and we are prepared, and to wear masks,” NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr VK Paul said.

According to government data, the second wave lasted 117 days, from 21 March to 14 July, 2021, in the country with a total of 1.94 crore cases and 2.52 lakh deaths — a case fatality rate (CFR) of 1.29%.

During the third wave, which lasted 41 days — from 4 January to 14 February, 2022 — India reported 77.42 lakh cases and 27,118 deaths, a CFR of 0.35%.

“The relentless efforts of healthcare and frontline workers coupled with vaccination coverage have yielded results for effective containment of the recent surge,” said Lav Agarwal, joint secretary in the health ministry.

According to government data, it took 49 days to reach the peak of over 4.14 lakh cases during the second surge, whereas it took 18 days to reach the peak during the third surge which was powered by the highly transmissible Omicron strain.

New Delhi: The government has made it mandatory for police to investigate all road accident cases that occur on and after April 1 and ordered that cops will have to intimate about accidents to motor accident claim tribunals (MACTs) and insurance companies within 48 hours. The road transport ministry also made it mandatory to incorporate validated mobile numbers in the insurance certificates.

The rules, aimed at faster disposal of cases and quick disbursal of compensations, have set the mandatory procedure for investigation of road accidents, preparation of detailed accident reports, and fixing timelines for different stakeholders for quick settlement of claims by the MACT.

As per the notification, the police will have to visit the accident spots, collect evidence and intimate to the MACT about the accidents so that the process starts quickly. The investigation officer (IO) will be duty bound to inform the victims or their legal representatives about their rights and claims. The changes have been made following a Delhi HC order which had directed the Centre to adopt the model, which has been successfully done in Delhi. This has drastically cut the time period for getting the compensation.

The rules have specified the responsibility and timeline that all the stakeholders to give the medico-legal and postmortem reports.

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