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The Delhi government has reduced the number of vaccination sites approved for the launch of Covid immunisation programme to 75 from the 89 shortlisted earlier.A total of 12 private and two government hospitals have been removed from the final .
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File photo: Congress MP Manish Tewari speaks in the Lok Sabha. (Representational image)
At a time when vaccine distribution to states across India is in full swing ahead of the January 16 launch, the Congress party has raised questions on the safety, compatibility of India s homegrown Covid vaccine named COVAXIN, asking the government how it can be rolled out when it is yet to clear phase-3 trials. Congress MP Manish Tewari has upped the issue saying Indians are not guinea pigs (someone who is used for an experiment), raising doubts on Bharat Biotech s vaccine efficacy.
Congress has cautioned the government that since the Covaxin vaccine has not completed phase-3 trials, it should not be rolled out as Indians are not guinea pigs .
Read more about 20,000 doses of Covaxin stored at Rajiv Gandhi hospital amid tight security on Business Standard. The first batch of Oxford Covishield vaccine containing 2.64 lakh doses reached the Delhi s central storage facility at RGSSH on Tuesday amid high security, officials earlier said