Before an important meeting on vaccine administration that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would hold with Chief Ministers on Tuesday morning, top government sources said one crore frontline healthcare workers were identified to receive the first dose of available vaccine against The Indian Express novel Is a coronavirus infection early next year.
The sources, who are part of the Expert Group on Vaccine Administration, said they have gone “in the advance stage” of creating a database for the first priority group – “frontline healthcare workers” – who will receive the first dose during the vaccination drive . , If and when a particular vaccine is approved for commercial use by the Indian regulator.
The backend preparations for the biggest vaccination drive also occur at a time when the center is expected to receive and use 400–500 million doses and cover around 20–25 million people by July 2021.
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