Updated: Dec 19, 2020, 12:33 AM IST
Even as India battles the Covid-19 pandemic very strongly, the real challenge lies ahead and that is to vaccinate such a huge population in a country with more than 130 crore people. Infact when the Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in India, it will be a record in itself.
The coronavirus vaccination will be the World s largest vaccination campaign ever. According to FICCI, in the first phase of vaccination process in India, three lakh people will be required to do the job and that includes one lakh trained staff and two lakh volunteers. Though the requirement is huge, India is all ready for the vaccination drive.
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More than a thousand Health Care Workers now vaccinated in BC
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1,215 Health Care Workers in the Lower Mainland have now received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Meanwhile, that news comes on a day when 673 new cases of the virus were announced in the province.
47 were in Northern Health and 66 in Interior Health.
There are now 10,009 active cases in BC, 358 are in hospital; 93 of whom are in ICU.
Northern Health’s total number of active cases is 401.
There are 47 people are in the hospital in the North ; 19 of whom are in ICU.
Interior Health has 809 active cases with 28 people in hospital, and seven in ICU.