Covid-19 Vaccine India Update: India will deliver 600 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the most sensitive people in the next six to eight months. According to a Reuters report, an expert who visited it said on Friday that India will install its own big election machinery and it will be made available through the traditional cold chain system. According to the report, VK Paul, head of the group of experts on vaccine administration of COVID-19, who advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that the government has made arrangements for cold storage, whose temperature is between 2 to 8 degrees Celsius (36 to 48 ° F).
Four vaccines ahead in India
Paul said that these preparations are in accordance with the requirements of four emerging candidates for vaccines in India. In the report, he told that four vaccines, which include Serum, India, Zydus and Sputnik, need normal cold chain. There are no problems with these vaccines.
Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, is already producing on a large scale and is stocking Covishield of AstraZeneca. Whereas, Bharat Biotech and Zydus Cadila are developing their own vaccine candidates. And last month, Indian pharmaceutical Hetero signed an agreement with Russia’s RDIF to manufacture more than 100 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine in India every year.
Expected to get approval for use in emergency soon
The government is hoping that the independent drug regulator is expected to get the first approval for use in an emergency very soon. Paul said that they are expecting early because they are ready. He said, however, that the government is yet to hold an official dialogue on the price and no firm purchases have been ordered yet. According to him, Indian companies know that the government will give them the right and fair price.
Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Saturday that COVID-19 vaccine will be made available free of cost in the state.
Source: www.financialexpress.com