India holds vaccine drills ahead of mass innoculation drive
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NEW DELHI, Jan 2, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – India on Saturday staged nationwide drills to start one of the world’s biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes as the drug regulator prepared to approve the first vaccine.
A government panel on Friday recommended emergency use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University shot and the first injections could be given in the coming week after the Drugs Control Authority of India gives final approval.
India, which has the world’s second highest number of pandemic cases more than 10.2 million has set an ambitious target of inoculating 300 million of its 1.3 billion people by mid-2021.
SRINAGAR: A dry run to check the best way to vaccinate people against COVID-19 and plug loopholes in logistics and training was held in Srinagar, Kulgam and Jammu on Saturday.
Financial Commissioner Health & Medical Education, Atal Dulloo, inaugurated and monitored the sessions of administration of Covid-19 vaccination to the beneficiaries at the selected sites.
Nurses displaying the COVID vaccine kit during a dry run conducted by Health department Kashmir at UPSC Nishat on January 2, 2021. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
This day-long drive tested the operational feasibility in the use of CoWIN application in a field environment. Short for Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network, CoWIN is a digital platform to roll out and scale up the vaccination drive.
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File photo of AIIMS Director and member of the National Task Force on COVID19, Dr Randeep Guleria. (Photo: ANI)
The expert panel of the drug regulator has recommended emergency use authorisations to two vaccines - Oxford AstraZeneca s Covishield and Bharat Biotech s Covaxin.
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr. Randeep Guleria on Saturday said India was ready for a mass rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine within the coming 10 to 14 days, as the expert panel of the drug regulator recommended emergency use authorisations to two vaccines - Oxford AstraZeneca s Covishield and Bharat Biotech s Covaxin.
NEW DELHI: Experts at India's drugs regulator have recommended for emergency use two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other backed by a state-run institute, the government said on Saturday. A government minister said earlier the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine had been given the green light on Friday, paving the way for a huge