Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that the logistics to make Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine available to Indian citizens must be worked out, adding that the central government has to define a vaccine distribution strategy.
“Despite the fact that Pfizer has created a promising vaccine, the logistics need to be worked out to make it available to all Indians. The Government of India has to define a vaccine distribution strategy and how it will reach all Indians, ”Gandhi tweeted. The congressional leader has spoken out about the Covid-19 crisis and has criticized the Center for testing, imposing closures, exodus of migrants, etc.
When asked when India would start discussions with Pfizer, the Union’s health secretary, Rajesh Bhushan, said on Tuesday that the national group of experts on the administration of the coronavirus vaccine was in dialogue with all vaccine manufacturers. , including nationals and foreigners.
Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company based in the United States, developed a vaccine to combat the coronavirus in collaboration with the German company BioNTech. Published data from human trials of the latest stage of the vaccine showed that it was found to be more than 90 percent effective, Pfizer said.
Governments around the world were satisfied with the results of the trial in the hope that it could stop the Covid-19 disease, which has already killed more than 1.2 million people around the world.
But the American and German companies pointed out that the vaccine would not be available for public use at any time since the safety data is not published and will be published in the last days of November.
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India, meanwhile, recorded 44,281 new Covid-19 cases and 512 more related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the overall count to 8,636,011, according to the Union Ministry of Health website.
Active cases fell below the 500,000 mark for the first time after 106 days and recoveries rose to 8,013,783.
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