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People gather on the first day of the New Year at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad on January 1, 2021. - AFP NEW DELHI, Jan 2 (AFP): India on Saturday staged nationwide drills to start one of the world s biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes as the drug regulator prepared to approve the first vaccine.
A government panel on Friday (Jan 1) recommended emergency use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University shot and the first injections could be given in the coming week after the Drugs Control Authority of India gives final approval.
India, which has the world s second highest number of pandemic cases more than 10.3 million has set an ambitious target of inoculating 300 million of its 1.3 billion people by mid-2021.
NEW DELHI: India on Saturday staged nationwide drills to start one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes as the drug regulator prepared to approve the first vaccine.
India holds vaccine drills ahead of mass innoculation drive
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NEW DELHI, Jan 2, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – India on Saturday staged nationwide drills to start one of the world’s biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes as the drug regulator prepared to approve the first vaccine.
A government panel on Friday recommended emergency use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University shot and the first injections could be given in the coming week after the Drugs Control Authority of India gives final approval.
India, which has the world’s second highest number of pandemic cases more than 10.2 million has set an ambitious target of inoculating 300 million of its 1.3 billion people by mid-2021.
SRINAGAR: A dry run to check the best way to vaccinate people against COVID-19 and plug loopholes in logistics and training was held in Srinagar, Kulgam and Jammu on Saturday.
Financial Commissioner Health & Medical Education, Atal Dulloo, inaugurated and monitored the sessions of administration of Covid-19 vaccination to the beneficiaries at the selected sites.
Nurses displaying the COVID vaccine kit during a dry run conducted by Health department Kashmir at UPSC Nishat on January 2, 2021. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
This day-long drive tested the operational feasibility in the use of CoWIN application in a field environment. Short for Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network, CoWIN is a digital platform to roll out and scale up the vaccination drive.