The nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive is underway in all over India from saturday 16th January 2021 . India has rolled out two coronavirus vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed
in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.
Millions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive. Several hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.
The government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls. India's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines -
An estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.
Next in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.
Both vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the
second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the
first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.
The government has held training for 2,360 people at the central level as part of the exercise, including state immunisation officers, cold chain officers. Approximately 61,000 programme managers, 2 lakh vaccinators and 3.7 lakh other vaccination team members were trained at the state level.
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