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A concrete Covid-19 vaccine distribution plan is finally taking shape in India. Once a vaccine is available in the country, the government plans to immunise 30 million citizens—10 million healthcare workers in private and government-owned hospitals, and 20 million frontline workers that includes police, defence, and municipal workers—in the first round, according to a Dec. 8 press release from the ministry of health and family welfare. So far, three vaccine makers have applied for an emergency use authorisation of their coronavirus vaccines in India. These are Pfizer, Serum Institute of I...

Vaccine optimism and the scientific uncertainty link Updated: Updated: January 16, 2021 10:03 IST Amidst the vaccine rollout, there is a critical need for a climate of transparency and data sharing for scrutiny and debate Share Article AAA Amidst the vaccine rollout, there is a critical need for a climate of transparency and data sharing for scrutiny and debate With its robust domestic vaccine industry and strong fundamentals of the Universal Immunisation Programme, India is now embarking on the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination programme, on January 16, 2021. This represents the forging...

India will launch its most ambitious and the world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive on Saturday. Inoculating the country’s vast and distributed population is a big challenge but India’s past experience in mass vaccination will come in handy here. The current Covid-19 vaccination drive also leans heavily on processes, manpower, database and experience of the Universal Immunisation Programme that vaccinated over 27 million pregnant women and 25 million infants every year. Much before modern vaccine interventions were developed in the West and brought to India by the British, this impo...

India will enter a decisive phase in its battle against Covid-19 with the rollout of the vaccination drive three days from now. Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined its importance by chairing meetings over the last...

Interview: Could Covid-19 vaccination undo India’s hard-won battle against polio? India has suspended the polio immunisation drive to make way for Covid-19 vaccination. An expert virologist weighs in on the risks. Jan 13, 2021 · 04:23 pm A child getting polio drops during a polio eradication programme in Jammu February 19, 2012. | Mukesh Gupta/Reuters Exactly a decade ago, on January 13, 2011, India reported its last case of polio. Until the early 1990s, the highly infectious viral disease was hyperendemic in India. It resulted in an average of 500 to 1,000 childr...