On Tuesday, Vij’s younger brother Rajinder Vij had told reporters outdoors PGIMS, “We are shifting him to Medanta because we are not seeing the kind of improvement which we were expecting.” He had stated that the medical doctors at the Rohtak hospital “gave their best treatment” and “provided best facilities”, but there had not been substantially improvement in the minister’s situation.
On Monday, he was examined by a unique health-related board comprising a group of senior medical doctors of PGIMS at Rohtak.
A health-related bulletin issued by the PGIMS hospital had stated that the crucial parameters of the minister have been typical and he was undergoing convalescent plasma therapy.
The minister had final month got 1 shot of the two-dose trial of Covaxin immediately after he supplied to be a volunteer.
The firebrand BJP leader had supplied to be the initially volunteer in the phase 3 trials for Covaxin, an indigenous possible vaccine getting created by Bharat Biotech against COVID-19.
He was administered the dose on November 20 at the Civil Hospital in Ambala Cantonment, about 50 km from Chandigarh.
Bharat Biotech had stated that clinical trials of the vaccine are primarily based on a two-dose schedule, provided 28 days apart. The vaccine efficacy will be determined two weeks immediately after the second dose, it stated.
Covaxin has been made to be protective two weeks immediately after volunteers get the second dose.
The Union well being ministry had also stepped in to say that Covaxin is a two-dose anti-coronavirus vaccine and that Vij was provided only the initially dose a fortnight just before he tested positive.
“The antibodies against the infection build up in a human being only after a specific number of days pass after the second dose of the vaccine is taken. This is a two-dose vaccine. The minister in question has taken only one dose of the vaccine,” the ministry had stated in a statement.
Vij had earlier stated that he had gone to Panipat a couple of days prior to testing positive for coronavirus exactly where he spent two to 3 hours with a BJP leader, who also tested positive for COVID-19.