Harsh Vardhan: Health care workers, people above 65 will be prioritized for Covid vaccine
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said healthcare workers and people aged above 65 will be prioritized when a vaccine becomes available.
"It is natural the vaccine distribution would have to be prioritized. As you know the healthcare workers who are corona warriors will be prioritized, then people who are above 65 years of age have been prioritized, then those from 50-65 years of age have been prioritized," he mentioned.
"Then those below 50 years who have other diseases. It is all being decided by experts with a scientific point of view. We have made a very detailed, meticulous plan for this. What we would have to do in March-April next year, we have started planning for it from now only," Vardhan added.
The minister said one can protect oneself from this deadly virus with small precautions like wearing a good quality mask properly, maintaining social distance, and taking care of hand-hygiene.
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories will soon start the combined phase-2 and phase-3 clinical trials of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, in India. Also, Biological E Limited has started early phases 1 and 2 human trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE said their vaccine candidate was found to be more than 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, whereas Moderna on Monday said its vaccine candidate against COVID-19 found it to have an efficacy of 94.5 percent.
-PTC News
