According to Modi's India's universal and unique bio-metric digital identity system Aadhaar helped to provide timely financial support to the poor. We could supply free food to 800 million people, and deliver cooking-fuel subsidies to many households. We were able to operationalise two public digital education programmes Swayam and Diksha in quick time to help students, said Modi. Talking about innovation, the PM said the private sector played a key role in adressing the shortage of PPE kits, masks, testing kits etc. "Doctors adopted tele-medicine so that some Covid and other non-Covid issues could be addressed virutally. Two vaccines are being made in India and more are in the development or trial stage, he said adding that indigenous IT platform Argo-Setu enabled effective contact tracing and the Cowin digital platform app had helped ensure vaccines to millions. The incidence rate of anaphylaxix (seven allergic reaction) in India after Covid vaccination is approximately one per million doses of either Covishield or Covaxin, said Dr advisor to the National Adverse Event Following Immunisation (AEFI) Committee. He said the number was lower than that of other countries, adding that the UK and some other nations have had an anaphyalxis incidence rate of 15 for every million doses. On tuesday the AEFI committee confirmed that a 68-year-old man had died in March after taking the vaccine. Dr. Arora anaphylaxis was seen during previous vaccination programmes as well. Usual rates are one to five events per million doses with most of the paediatric and adult vaccines, he said, adding that post-jab monitoring has helped spot adverse reactions on time. The death assessment of 31 serious adverse events after immunisation was submitted by the Government panel after the causality asseement was done for cases reported in February and March. The report was out on June 4.
