A vaccine against the novel coronavirus pandemic will be administered to all inhabitants of Delhi within three to four weeks of its availability in the city, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Saturday.
Delhi’s Health Minister said that the Covid-19 vaccine will be administered to everyone in the national capital with the help of health facilities such as polyclinics.
“As long as the vaccine is available in Delhi, within 3-4 weeks it will be administered throughout the national capital with the help of our health facilities such as polyclinics,” the news agency. AND ME Satyendar Jain quoted saying.
The Delhi Health Minister’s statement comes at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is personally reviewing the Covid-19 vaccine development and manufacturing process at major vaccine centers in India today.
The visit, Prime Minister Modi’s office said, was meant to help him get a “first-hand perspective of the preparations, challenges and roadmap in India’s effort to vaccinate its citizens.”
PM Modi is on a three-city vaccination tour with a visit to the Zydus Cadila Pharmaceutical Plant in Gujarat. After Gujarat, PM Modi will fly to Hyderabad to visit the Bharat Biotech facility.
From Hyderabad, the Prime Minister will fly to Pune to visit the Serum Institute of India, which has partnered with global pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford for a Covid-19 vaccine.
Delhi Reports 98 Covid Deaths, 5,482 New Cases
The national capital registered 5,482 new cases of coronavirus in a 24-hour span on Friday, while 98 more deaths related to the disease raised the city’s death toll to 8,909.
According to a bulletin issued by the Delhi Department of Health, the total number of coronavirus cases rose to 5.56,744 on Friday, of which 5.09,654 have recovered. The active case count in Delhi was 38,181 down from 38,734 on Thursday.
The positivity rate was 8.51%. It was 8.65% on Thursday and 8.49% on Wednesday.
About 64,455 tests, including 28,100 RT-PCR tests and 36,355 rapid antigen tests, were performed the day before for the detection of the deadly virus.
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