Guwahati: Even though India has refused to provide Covid-19 vaccines made in China, for other deadly vector default diseases, Japanese encephalitis (JE), he rely on a vaccine made by China to vaccinate in the endemic region of JE in the country.
The Ministry of Health officials told TII that Assam had received around 41.79 doses of lakh vaccine for vaccinations this year and the entire lot that was being used today was life was weakened by JE 14-14-2 vaccine produced by the Chengdu Institute of Biological Products.
“As requested from the Disease Control Program in National Vector (NVBDCP), Assam, our country has received a direct vaccine of SA 14-14-2,” NVBDCP State Program Officer (SPO), Assam, said Harp Singh Suri, told Ti.
For this year’s vaccination drive this year, which was launched in October, only the JE vaccine made by China that must be used to vaccinate 40.17 lakh people who remain vulnerable to JE in the middle of the threat of Covid-19.
The source of the Ministry of Health said the efficacy of India and China made vaccines in par but the most famous reasons at the center why he supplied a Chinese-made vaccine for JE while rejecting China’s Coronavirus vaccine.
“Since 2005, the JE vaccine made in China has been used in India and its efficacy and the acceptance is undeniable.
It is difficult to say why the government does not trust China for the Covid vaccine,” said a source at the Ministry of Health.
Last year, the Government Assam has bought Je Vaccine Jenvac from Bharat Biotech, made in India.
However, this year, the state must depend on the central supply which is made by China.
This year’s vaccination will cover 92 blocks in 18 state districts.
This will include a population that remains unknown in 2013-14, 2015-16 and 2016-17 when vaccination is given on a significant scale.
Last year, 87 percent of the target was achieved in Goalpara, 50.6% in Kokrajhar and 29% in the southern salmara.
It was Bharat Biotech vaccine, which was managed in three of these districts.
But this year, when the State Health Department decided to end the threat of JE, only the Chinese vaccine included in 18 districts where rice fields and Pirer were seen as the main source.
The wild pigs and birds are Jevirus’s main carrier especially during the rainy season, when stagnant water creates a conducive atmosphere to breed culex mosquitoes, the main vector for JE.
To eradicate JE, vaccination is the only way to destroy mosquito breeding soils has become an impractical solution in the Rural District Assam.
Of the 216 cases, 40 JE Deaths was reported in Assam this year.
Last year, between 320 cases, 51 died.
The appropriate number is 642 cases and 161 deaths in 2019.