“The purchase order for Covishield vaccines is expected today with roll out either today or tomorrow,” the sources told .
“A few million doses of Covishield will be supplied every week. 11 million doses may be supplied in the initial lot,” sources mentioned.
The vaccine rollout is anticipated on January 16, the government mentioned on the weekend.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus, “Covishield”, was cleared for emergency use along with Bharat Biotech’s indigenous “Covaxin” earlier this month.
Serum chief executive Adar Poonawalla had told that the vaccine would be priced at about Rs 1,000 rupees per dose for the private market place in India and would expense the government about Rs 250 Indian rupees ($3.40) per dose.
The government plans to cover 300 million men and women in the very first element of the programme in which wellness workers, frontline employees such as police and men and women more than the age of 50 and these with co-morbidities will be covered very first.
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That will call for 600 million doses and Serum, the world’s biggest manufacturer of vaccines has stockpiled 50 million doses for instant distribution.