India is identifying another 30 million people who will receive the initial dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the Times of India reported Saturday.
Priority will be given to staff in high-risk sectors, such as police, physical care, sanitation, the elderly and others suffering from comorities, said the report, which brought in officials it did not identify. are scheduled for the initial phase once the use of a vaccine is approved, according to the report.
For a country of its size, the immediate delivery of vaccines is a more sensible precedent for the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The country’s flawed physical care system, which is already suffering to provide good enough care before the epidemic, cannot cope with the strain of a prolonged pandemic.
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Vaccine recipients in the former will get about 60 million rupees of doses and the implementation plan aims to protect more than 23% of the population, according to the report. India added 62,212 new cases, bringing overall infections in the country to 74. 3 lakh as of October 17, according to government data.
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