{"id":330057,"date":"2021-01-05T12:57:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T12:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330057"},"modified":"2021-01-05T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T12:57:04","slug":"india-ready-to-roll-out-covid-19-vaccine-likely-by-january-13-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-ready-to-roll-out-covid-19-vaccine-likely-by-january-13-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"India ready to roll out COVID-19 vaccine likely by January 13: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines will be ready for rollout within 10 days of granting emergency use approval based on the feedback from dry run.<\/span><\/p>\n

Addressing a press conference, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that the government is prepared to roll out the vaccine drive within 10 days from approval.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnly 43.96% of the total active cases of COVID19 are under treatment in health-care facilities, on the other hand 56.04% of the active cases are very mild or asymptomatic and are in home isolation,\u201d the Health Secretary said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a Continuous decline in active cases which are now below 2.5 Lakh,\u201d he said<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIndia has reported only 96 new cases and 1 death per million population in the last 7 days,\u201d he added<\/span><\/p>\n

The Health Secretary informed that there are four primary vaccine stores called GMSD located in Karnal, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata and there are a total of 37 vaccine stores in the country. They store vaccines in bulk and distribute further.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of vaccines stored and temperature trackers in the facility are monitored digitally. We have this facility for over a decade in the country,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bhushan also confirmed that healthcare workers and frontline workers would not need to register themselves as a beneficiary of COVID-19 vaccine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cVaccine is transported from primary health centers through vaccine carriers technically known as passive equipment with temperature regulations to sub-centers. Beneficiary registration will not be required for health & frontline workers,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Co-WIN Delivery Management system includes automated session allocation, SMS to be sent in 12 languages, 24×7 helpline, chatbox, digital locker for integrated data retrieval and storing of QR code certificate,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

On January 3, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approved Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech\u2019s vaccines for emergency use.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday announced that COVID-19 vaccines will be ready for rollout within 10 days of granting emergency use approval based on the feedback from dry run. Addressing a press conference, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that the government is prepared to roll out the vaccine drive within 10 days from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13837,4903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330058,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330057\/revisions\/330058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}