How India plans to immunize against Covid | Economic Times

India will start this month a vaccination drive to inoculate about 300 million people against Covid-19, an exercise considered to be one of the largest immunization drives in the world. What will it take to vaccinate a population of this size and who will be involved in this programme? ET takes a deep diveVACCINES APPROVED IN INDIA FOR EMERGENCY USE:Covishield (developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and manufactured by Serum Institute of India)Covaxin (developed by Bharat Biotech) in clinical trial mode 80206084KEY MINISTRIES AND THEIR DUTIES: Women and child development: Provide team members, support supervision and monitoring of vaccinationAYUSH: Provide authorized vaccinatorsDEFENCE: Manage vaccine delivery in hard-toreach parts of IndiaFOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLIES: Support in providing coldstorage spaces and transportDEPARTMENT OF POWER: Monitor and ensure uninterrupted power supply at vaccine storage points and vaccinations sites 80206088 80206097 80206101Latest electoral rolls for Lok Sabha and legislative assembly elections will be used to identify population over 50 years. Age will be calculated based on the cutoff date of January 1, 2021 and anyone born on or before January 1, 1971 will fall under this category.