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The Uttar Pradesh government has claimed that a sanitisation programme has been launched in villages to tackle the spread of Covid in rural areas.

As Uttar Pradesh grapples with the second wave of coronavirus pandemic, with the Covid-19 infection spreading to rural areas, the UP government has started a sanitisation drive in rural areas to tackle the spread of coronavirus.

The UP government has claimed that its representatives have visited over three crore houses at block levels in districts and tested over 2.5 lakh people in rural areas in a week.

Chairman of India’s Technical Advisory Group on Covid-19 vaccination, Dr NK Arora, has defended the Centre’s decision to increase the gap between both doses of Covishield to 12-16 weeks from the earlier norm of 6-8 weeks. The Health Ministry accepted the recommendation on Thursday.

It was the National Technical Advisory Group on immunisation headed by Dr Arora that had recommended extending the gap between two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Covishield, developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, is being produced by Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII).