Preparations underway at Delhi s Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital to store COVID-19 vaccine By Amit Pandey | Updated: Dec 23, 2020 23:12 IST
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): From installing freezers to cold chain equipment set up, arrangements are being made at the Delhi government s Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) for storing COVID-19 vaccine.
As of Wednesday, over 100 freezers were brought to the hospital, said Dr. Chhavi Gupta, RGSSH spokesperson. The equipment for vaccine storage is coming to the hospital. We are in the process of installing and keeping them in our hospital building. Over 100 freezers have arrived here. We are operating at 2 to 8 degrees celsius. We are ready to store the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Gupta told ANI.
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Coronavirus vaccine
India’s total number of COVID-19 cases are at 1,00,99,066, out of which 2,89,240 are active cases. The Central government is expected to have some big announcement related to the vaccine on December 25. India is likely to approve Oxford/AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in the country by next week, after its local manufacturer submitted additional data sought by authorities. It could be the first country to give the nod to the British vaccine as the British regulators continue trials.
India wants to start immunizing its citizens next month and is also considering emergency use authorization applications for vaccines made by Pfizer Inc and Bharat Biotech. The government has said that it will release one of these vaccines to the public as soon as the clinical data provided is found satisfactory.
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Rajiv Gandhi Hospital in New Delhi (Express photo by Abhinav Saha)
With India moving closer towards getting the vaccine against Covid-19, preparations are at full swing at the Delhi government’s Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital, which will be the biggest storage facility for the vaccine, once it arrives.
The 650-bed hospital located in east Delhi’s Dilshad Garden, has been identified as the city’s first storage facility for the vaccine.