{"id":109329,"date":"2020-12-05T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=109329"},"modified":"2020-12-05T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T08:05:35","slug":"anil-vij-tests-coronavirus-positive-covaxin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/anil-vij-tests-coronavirus-positive-covaxin\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana health minister Anil Vij tests coronavirus positive, two weeks after receiving Bharat Biotech&#8217;s Covaxin trial dose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Haryana health minister Anil Vj has tested positive for the coronavirus, two weeks after receiving the trial dosage of coronavirus vaccine Covaxin. Vij took to Twitter to inform about the illness and asked everyone who had come in close contact with him to get tested. Vij is currently undergoing treatment at Covil Hospital in Ambala Cantt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have been tested Corona positive. I am admitted in Civil Hospital Ambala Cantt. All those who have come in close contact to me are advised to get themselves tested for corona.<\/p>&mdash; Anil Vij Ex &#8211; Home Minister Haryana, India (@anilvijminister) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anilvijminister\/status\/1335093819654619137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vij was given trial dosage of Bharat Biotech&#8217;s Covaxin on November 20 after he expressed his wish to become the first volunteer for the Phase-3 trials of the vaccine being conducted in partnership with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trials are currently underway across India. In this phase 26,000 volunteers will be administered the vaccine. Trial volunteers will be administered two intramuscular injections about 28 days apart. Covaxin is being developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in August, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had tested positive for the coronavirus. Meanwhile, Covid infections in India have crossed the 96 lakh-mark. The country has reported 36, 652 cases and 512 death in the past 24 hours. the death toll in country has now reached 1,39,700.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India continues to remain the second worst affected country in the world due to Covid-19. However, the country has one of the highest recovery rates in the world as more than 90 lakh people have already recovered from the disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/gurugram-murder-serial-killer-mohammad-raji\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Man arrested in Gurugram for three murders, says wanted to show world what he can do<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Friday, prime minister Narendra Modi said the coronavirus vaccine will be available for administration within a few weeks. He said the frontline workers, health workers and elderly people will be the first priority of the government for immunisation. \u00a0Oxford-AstraZeneca&#8217;s vaciine being produced by the Serum Institute of India is currently the front-runner in the race for vaccine. The vaccine might be given emergency approval for administration soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haryana health minister Anil Vj has tested positive for the coronavirus, two weeks after receiving the trial dosage of coronavirus vaccine Covaxin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":106678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[98047,94891,88191,94890,92435,99306,99307],"yst_prominent_words":[88149,94992,5087,73031,32608,6906,21991,3704,3688,12121,53581,13302,5055,48599,20829],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20151428\/anil-vij.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109329"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=109329"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=109329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->