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Anish Sinha with Upcover co-founder Skye Theodorou. Source: supplied.
A group of Aussie tech leaders are clubbing together to raise funds and provide logistical support to help tackle the escalating COVID-19 crisis in India.
Tech giants Canva, SafetyCulture and Airtasker, along with leading VC firms AirTree Ventures and Blackbird Ventures, have partnered up with Medical Oxygen for All, an organisation coordinating distribution of medical supplies in India. The organisation is led by Anish Sinha, who is also co-founder of gig-economy insurance startup Upcover.
The group have launched the Aussie Tech for India campaign, in a bid to raise awareness and help provide financial and logistical support on the ground in India, to help tackle the escalating COVID-19 crisis.
Updated Jan 21, 2021 | 14:04 IST
357 doses of Covishield vaccine were found to have been wasted from the last vials in the four big cities of Gujarat after two days of the drive. 357 doses of Covid vaccine wasted in four cities of Gujarat, state data yet to come | Photo Credit: AP
Ahmedabad: The state of Gujarat got 5.34 lakh doses of the Astra-Zeneca Covishield vaccine in two batches on January 12 and 13 from Serum Institute of India in Pune.
357 doses of Covishield vaccine were found to have been wasted from the last vials in the four big cities of the state after two days of the drive.
Public health experts believe that intranasal vaccines for coronavirus, administered through nose rather than muscles, can be a potential gamechanger in Indias fight against the coronavirus pandemic.The nasal vaccine is different from two .