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165 lakh COVID vaccine doses procured so far at cost of Rs 350.25 crore: MoS Health Ashwini Choubey The existing infrastructure under Universal Immunization Programme is being used and simultaneously strengthened for deployment of vaccines, including storage and transportation. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- By PTI NEW DELHI: A total of 165 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - have been procured so far at a cost of Rs 350.25 crore, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey told Lok Sabha on Friday. Giving out the details of the number of vaccines already procur...

URL copied Image Source : PIB Pulse Polio 2021: President Kovind launches countrywide programme. All you need to know about Polio Ravivar President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday launched the Pulse Polio Programme for 2021 by administering polio drops to children less than five years old at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in the presence of Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, and Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. The President and First Lady Savita Kovind administered polio drops to children on the eve o...

From crowded Delhi to the remote Himalayas: the world's most complex vaccine drive begins India is combining tradition and technology in an ambitious bid to vaccinate its one billion citizens by the end of this year 16 January 2021 • 7:00am A woman walks past a painting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai, a day before the country's Covid-19 vaccination drive Credit: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters Peering from her simple concrete home in the foothills of the Himalayas, Taba Yari, 54, can finally breathe a sigh of relief. On Saturday, the first of 30 million Indian healthcare worke...

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...

European The Indian authorities may have given a go-ahead to two COVID-19 vaccines (Covishield by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and Covaxin by Bharat Biotech), the task of administering a two-dose vaccine to over 1.3 billion people will be nothing short of a logistical nightmare. With the approval of the two vaccines, the government authorities have also re-launched the Co-WIN (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network). The indigenously built platform, which will work as an intelligence ecosystem, is an updated version of eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network), and has been developed ...