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When poliovirus was found in wastewater samples from three counties earlier in September, New York declared a State disaster emergency. This year, the environmental surveillance of sewage samples from Kolkata in India revealed the presence of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), however, the Health Ministry noted that this might happen in any nation where oral polio vaccinations (OPVs) are administered. The Global Polio Eradication Drive has now identified 30 nations where either imported wild or vaccine-derived poliovirus or circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) has been detected. The United States is now included on this list. Israel, Ukraine, Nigeria, and Egypt are among the other countries on the list. Since polio is still prevalent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, those two nati...

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Over 4 Million Indians Died Due To COVID-19: WHO; Government’s Data Manipulated

Sonia SolankiMay 7, 20220

The World Health Organisation's (WHO) data on the Covid deaths in India clearly shows that the government has the power to manipulate the data. According to the WHO data, the number of death is almost ten times the death reported by the Indian government under the Covid deaths. It is not the first time that such an allegation surfaced regarding the covid death numbers in India. Recently only, New York Times also published a similar report stating how India is not letting the truth out pertaining to the death in the pandemic. WHO's Data Findings According to the World Mortality Dataset by WHO many nations have failed to report the true numbers of covid deaths. As per WHO, 15 million Covid deaths have occurred globally. The excess death is simply counted as how many more p...

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COVID-19: Covaxin Removed From WHO’s Covax Platform; Vaccine Safe To Use!

Gunjan ChaudharyApril 4, 20220

The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed Covaxin, a coronavirus vaccine that is developed in India by Bharat Biotech, from its Covax platform. The COVID vaccines included in this platform of WHO are given global support in production, international supply, development, research etc. but now the World Health Organization (WHO) has removed this vaccine from its portal suddenly. The World Health Organization (WHO) had said last Saturday that it had found deficiencies in Covaxin's production process, but that there were no issues with the vaccine's efficacy and safety and therefore they have removed the vaccine from the portal. Covaxin manufacturer Bharat Biotech claimed that the crores of people who have been vaccinated with this vaccine are completely safe, and their vacc...