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Starting next week, ‘First vaccination campaign of 300 million people’ … Plan to complete vaccination by July
According to foreign media such as Reuters, on the 2nd, Indian Information and Communication Minister Prakash Javadekar said: “We have decided on the 1st to approve the emergency use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
This is the first time that India has approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine. It is the second country in the world to approve the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after the United Kingdom.
“We are participating in a vaccine clinical trial at the Serum Institute (SII), an Indian pharmaceutical company and the world’s largest vaccine company, and we have already produced 50 million doses in our factory in India for urgent approval,” he said. . The SII plans to increase its production to 100 million batches per month until March.
At present, at least three companies, including local pharmaceutical companies Barat Virotech, Zidos Cadillac and Russia’s Sputnik V, are awaiting approval from the Indian authorities for the use of the vaccine. It will be a country. “
The Indian government agency, the Central Pharmaceutical Standards Administration (CDSCO), is expected to release details on the AstraZeneca vaccine. IBS is reported to have ordered two doses of AstraZeneca vaccine at 4 week intervals.
According to the AFP news agency, 96,000 indigenous health workers have already received related training, such as practicing vaccines across the country before the first vaccine vaccination.
Indian Health Minister Harsi Bardan added that “we have made every effort to prepare for the next vaccines to continue smoothly.” .
Indian authorities will start vaccinating 10 million medical and health workers and 20 million police, military and municipal employees starting next week.
The number of priority vaccination targets set by the Indian government is 300 million people, including medical personnel, policemen, soldiers and people aged 50 and over, and it plans to finish vaccination in July.
Minister Harsi Bardan said that day that “the vaccine will be distributed free of charge to 30 million people, including medical personnel and workers at the quarantine front.”
India, a country with a population of 1.3 billion, is the second country in the world with the second highest confirmed corona19 number after the United States. On this day, the cumulative number of confirmed corona 19 cases in India was 10,305,788 (according to the Indian Ministry of Health), an increase of 19,079 from the previous day.
In September, the number of new confirmed cases per day reached 100,000.
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