A day before a massive countrywide vaccination drive against coronavirus is set to commence, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said the step is probably the beginning of the end of COVID-19.
India is set to begin the much awaited COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16. Two indigenously developed coronavirus vaccines Covishield and Covaxin will be administered to nearly 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers both in government and private sectors during the first phase.
The ministry of health and family welfare has warned citizens against downloading fake CoWIN apps that are doing the rounds on app stores.Nearly 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers will be inoculated during the initial phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive
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India will start nationwide COVID-19 vaccine drive, starting tomorrow. The healthcare workers and frontline workers will be vaccinated during the first phase of incolution drive. The states have received COVID-19 vaccines and necessary guidelines to start the procedure. India granted emergency approval for two coronavirus vaccine Covishield by the Serum Institute of India and Covaxin by Bharat Biotech. People will receive two dosage of the vaccine in a gap of 28 days, health secretary Rajesh Bhushan earlier explained.
Updated Jan 14, 2021 | 10:00 IST
The Union Health Ministry has advised all states to not organise “unreasonable numbers of vaccination per site per day”. A Covid-19 vaccination site in Himachal Pradesh. | Photo Credit: AP
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Each vaccination session will cater to a maximum of 100 beneficiaries
The shots will be offered first to approximately 1 crore healthcare workers, and roughly 2 crore frontline workers, and then to people above 50 years of age
New Delhi: With the central government all set to initiate nationwide vaccination drives, official sources have revealed that as many as three lakh healthcare workers will get inoculated on the first day of the massive Phase 1 drive at 2,934 sites across India.