Workers transport an Envirotainer, a temperature-cooled container, at the airport. The distribution of vaccines in India will pose many logistical headaches given the size of the country, its vast population and the number of coronavirus cases, now at more than 10 million. For its part, India’s busiest airport is “fully …
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The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is about to finalize an agreement with the Indian Air Force to receive 2.5 acres of land adjacent to the Pune airport, to be used for the transportation of vaccines from nearby facilities. from the vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India. “The transfer of …
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Nationwide, the pandemic has slowed since September, but weekly increases in some states had remained massive in absolute terms. Yet this week, Kerala, Maharashtra and West Bengal, the source of most of the new infections, together totaled nearly 74,000 cases in seven days. India has added 189,186 new patients in …
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Written by Kaunain Sheriff M | New Delhi | Updated: December 8, 2020 7:53:42 am States are also uploading data on 2.39 lakhs of vaccinators, many of whom are assistant nurse midwives (ANM), on the digital platform, the sources said. The vaccine will be administered to 100 people during each …
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However, distributing the vaccines in India’s first mass vaccination campaign for adults could be a daunting task. It will require expanding India’s existing cold chain capacity at breakneck speed, especially in some of the most densely populated parts of the country, where such infrastructure is very limited. It will also …
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NEW YORK: At least 19 global health experts have proposed a new three-phase plan for vaccine distribution, called the Fair Priority Model, that aims to reduce premature deaths and other irreversible health consequences of Covid-19. “The idea of distributing vaccines by population appears to be a fair strategy,” said the …
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