Coronavirus India LIVE Updates: At Lok Nayak, the largest facility just for Covid, 1,670 of the 2,000 beds are available. (Archive)
Coronavirus India LIVE updates
India will carry out the largest vaccination campaign in its history in the coming year. Top government sources told The Indian Express that the vaccine administration guidelines are based on the crucial question of the likelihood of an adverse event being reported after each dose. Sources said that since each vaccine will take at least 30 minutes, only 100 injections will be given in each session. Both government and private health centers will be connected to conduct the first round of immunizations for frontline health workers.
Meanwhile, the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine has been found to be safe, with only three of the 23,745 participants over a median of 3.4 months experiencing serious adverse events that were possibly related to a vaccine. All three participants have recovered or are recovering, and remain in the trial, said Professor Andrew Pollard of the University of Oxford, who is the study’s lead author, while addressing a virtual press conference after the publication of the interim results from Oxford. Covid-19 vaccine trials in The Lancet on Tuesday.
In addition, Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine outside of a trial on Tuesday when Britain began vaccinating its population. An early riser, Keenan received the vaccine at her local hospital in Coventry, central England, on Tuesday morning at 0631 GMT, a week before her 91st birthday. Britain began rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday, the first Western country to begin vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as a decisive milestone in defeating the coronavirus.
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