Corona Vaccination LIVE: India To Kickstart World’s Largest Innoculation Drive On Jan 16

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this will be the world’s largest vaccination program covering the entire length and breadth of the country and all preparations are in place to initiate the programme .

Sanjhi Soch Beauro –the Union Health Ministry on Thursday, confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launching India’s mass inoculation drive against the Covid-19 pandemic on January 16. “The massive countrywide Covid-19 vaccination drive will be rolled out by Prime Minister from January 16. This would be the world’s largest immunisation exercise,” the Health Ministry said. As part of the launch, PM Modi will be interacting with some of the beneficiaries who will get the vaccine shots on Saturday, through videoconferencing.

The government has now disapproved the authorisation of Bharat Biotech’s Covid vaccine to people below 18 years of age whereas earlier, it was approved for children above the age of 12 years by the Drugs Controller General of India. A letter from the office of additional secretary at the union health ministry carrying a comparative factsheet for the two Covid vaccines approved for emergency authorisation revealed that the government has “not recommended” their authorisation to people below 18 years of age.

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