On Jan. 3rd: <<"In an emergency situation when there is a sudden increase in cases and we need to vaccinate, Bharat Biotech vaccine will be used. It can also be used as a backup when we are not sure how efficacious the Serum Institute vaccine is going to be," Dr Guleria said. "*Initially, Serum Institute's vaccine will be given. They already have 50 million doses available and they will be able to give that in the initial phase where we will vaccinate around three crore people* [emphasis added]," he Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS) said.
(Excerpted from: < https://in.news.yahoo.com/covaxin-only-back-covid-19-105828799.html) Now this! <<Bharat Biotech, which has received Emergency Use Authorisation approval from theDrug Controller General of Indiafor its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, is set to dispatch it from the Rajv Gandhi International Airport here on Tuesday evening, a senior official of the Airports cargo division said. "Today we have received the first consignment of vaccines from Serum Institute at Hyderabad airport.We received 970 kgs of consignment (from Serum Institute)." "Today in the evening the first consignment is going out of Hyderabad.... (it is from ) Bharat Biotech. It is going to 11 destinations," the official told reporters after receiving the first consignment of Covishield vaccines. Covishield is developed by Oxford University and British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII).>> (Excerpted from: < https://www.livemint.com/science/health/bharat-biotech-set-to-dispatch-first-consignment-of-covaxin-11610442710052.html >.) Both Covishield and Covaxin on par. Never mind that the latter is yet to complete its thrid stage clinical trial and one volunteer has, reportedly, succumbed to the vaccine (ref.: < https://scroll.in/latest/983645/stop-covaxin-trial-bhopal-gas-tragedy-survivors-organisations-write-to-pm-narendra-modi >). -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZjPQaBSUxkKBWHZ5TgFWgt4-fa4Qci6vawQ-zzr50Ddpw%40mail.gmail.com.
