Agencies“In the shortest possible time, India has done extremely well on development of vaccines," Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Friday while in Chennai to review the State’s second Covid-19 vaccine dry run.
He said two of the country's vaccines have been given emergency use authorisation and that in the "next few days or so" vaccines would be available for use starting with those who are most at risk -- health professionals and healthcare workers in public and private sector followed by frontline workers. In the next stage, we will take up people above 50 years of age, and then those less than 50 years with co-morbidites.
Further, the electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN), now converted into a CoWIN platform, is tracking details of potential beneficiaries for the COVID-1 vaccine, the place where he/she is likely to get the vaccination, pre and post-vaccination -- including issuing an electronic certificate, following up for the second dose through detailed text messages and reminders, he said.
He said two of the country's vaccines have been given emergency use authorisation and that in the "next few days or so" vaccines would be available for use starting with those who are most at risk -- health professionals and healthcare workers in public and private sector followed by frontline workers. In the next stage, we will take up people above 50 years of age, and then those less than 50 years with co-morbidites.
Further, the electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN), now converted into a CoWIN platform, is tracking details of potential beneficiaries for the COVID-1 vaccine, the place where he/she is likely to get the vaccination, pre and post-vaccination -- including issuing an electronic certificate, following up for the second dose through detailed text messages and reminders, he said.
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