Coronavirus vaccine update: Need for expeditious vaccination drive to cover targeted population, says Vardhan
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan was speaking while chairing the 22nd meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 through video-conferencing on Saturday
PTI | December 19, 2020 | Updated 18:34 IST
Union Health Ministry had asked states to submit lists of priority population who will receive COVID-19 vaccine first
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday stressed the need for an expeditious COVID-19 vaccination drive to cover the entire target population estimated to be around 30 crore. Vardhan was speaking while chairing the 22nd meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 through video-conferencing on Saturday.
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India on cusp of authorising COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.
The Health Minister made the announcement while chairing the virtual meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers.
India on Saturday crossed the grim milestone of registering one crore COVID-19 infections.
New Delhi: India is on the cusp of approving its first set of COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday (December 19, 2020). Vardhan made the announcement while chairing the virtual meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 as India crossed the one crore infection mark.
The Minister expressed the need for an expeditious
India managed to duck rise in Covid cases during festival season, says Harsh Vardhan
December 19, 2020
× India was able to avoid a surge in Covid-19 cases during the festival season by putting in place a comprehensive testing, tracking and treatment strategy, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. Addressing the 22nd meeting of the Group of Ministers constituted for putting together an action plan to fight the pandemic in February, he briefed about the plans to expeditiously vaccinate 30 crore Indians in all target populations. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Minister for Civil Aviation, Hardeep Puri and Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai were among those present. “When we met last in mid-October, the number of active cases in India was around 10 lakh and now it has dropped to around 3 lakh,” the Health Minister said. He said India’s Covid-19 pandemic growth has dropped to 2 per cent and case fatality rate is amongst the lowest in the world
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday announced that India is at the cusp of authorizing the first set of Covid-19 vaccines and expressed the need for an expeditious vaccination drive to cover all the target populations estimated to be around 30 crore. The Minister made the announcement while chairing the 22nd meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on Covid-19 through a video-conference here as India crossed the one crore infection mark. He was virtually joined by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep S. Puri, Minister of State Health & Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, Member (Health) NITI Aayog Vinod K. Paul, Advisers to the Prime Minister Amarjeet Sinha and Bhaskar Khulbe.
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