Hyderabad: Vaccine shots are proving beneficial, health experts

Hyderabad: The public in general in Telangana is benefiting from high levels of penetration of Covid vaccines, booster injections and naturally acquired immunity from Covid infection, thereby providing a healthy immunity at the population level. Severe infection due to JN. 1, the new variant of SARS-CoV-2. Public health officials and doctors tracking the nature of recent Covid infections in Hyderabad have said that more than 90 per cent of the positive cases are only upper respiratory tract infections and there are not many cases of patients with similar complex symptoms. Damage from pneumonia. He explains that the lack of severity is due to greater access to Covid vaccines, including boosters, and immunity acquired from previous natural infections. More than 90 percent people in Telangana have received the first and second dose of the Covid vaccine. Last year, around 1 million people received fuel injections. Perhaps this is the reason why the new variant of Covid JN.1 is not spreading in the community. Top level doctors of General Gandhi and Osmania Hospital believe that almost all the positive people infected due to Covid are recovering. Currently, among the southern states, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are leading in terms of Covid reinforcement injections. Till January this year, a total of 1,08 million people (between 18 and 59 years) received booster injections of the Covid vaccine in Telangana. Even the reach of the first and second doses of the Covid vaccine is very high: it is given to eligible persons for about Rs 5.9 million (including the first and second). This is being said since the day the Covid vaccine was launched during the festival of Sankranti. On January 16, 2021, in Telangana, the then BRS government had administered Covid vaccine injections (two regular doses, one booster) worth over Rs 7,76 million for all eligible age groups.