New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the nationwide Covid vaccination drive on Saturday, a best official stated today. Some 3 lakh men and women will acquire shots on the 1st day, VK Paul, member of program body NITI Aayog, told .
“PM Modi will be beginning the vaccination program. The details are being worked out,” Mr Paul told on the launch of 1 of the world’s biggest vaccination programmes two days later.
The vaccination drive will commence with 3,000 internet sites on Saturday. Each centre will inoculate one hundred men and women a day to commence with.
“As the program progresses, it will be ramped up to 5,000 sites and more,” Mr Paul stated.
The government aims to vaccinate 300 million higher-threat men and women more than the next handful of months.
The 1st to get the shots will be 30 million well being and other frontline workers, followed by about 270 million 50-plus men and women.
“Vaccines have been allotted to states as per their healthcare workers data. Healthcare workers need not worry, I assure them. They should be the role model,” Mr Paul stated.
Reports recommend PM Modi will practically interact with well being workers in some cities just after launching the drive.
Batches of Covishield, the Oxford vaccine becoming manufactured by Serum Institute of India, and Bharat Biotech’s homegrown Covaxin, have been flown to 12 cities for the 1st phase of vaccination.
The government has purchased 110 lakh doses of Covishield at ₹ 200 per dose (excluding taxes) to commence with. 55 lakh doses of Covaxin have also been procured.
India has 1,05,12,093 coronavirus circumstances and has recorded 1,51,727 deaths considering the fact that the pandemic broke out a year ago.