Speaking to Business Today's Anup Jayaram, WHO's Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan explained how herd immunity for the COVID-19 virus can be achieved. She also stressed on the need for stronger communication at the community levels about vaccination to make people feel confident about vaccines. Many people in the developed countries are opposing the vaccination while those in the developing world are more upbeat about it. Watch the video for more. 12 months before full vaccine approval: WHO's Chief Scientist

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Ahead of the nationwide roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine, states have made all necessary preparations, including identifying vaccination sites and registration of healthcare and other frontline workers

This will be the first interaction between the Prime Minister and the chief ministers of all states after the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) granted emergency use authorisation to Covishield and Covaxin

As the world marches towards immunity, a bigger problem is the emergence of new strains of the virus, some more deadly and infectious than the original, warns WHO Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Full authorisation-better known as \"full pre-qualification\"-is a pre-requisite to sell the vaccine in the open market or for mass immunisation of healthy individuals who are not frontline workers

World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan's comments come in the backdrop of several Indian vaccine makers and medical experts complaining about the confusing manner in which DCGI has granted emergency use approvals for COVID-19 vaccines in India

Several states have made all necessary preparations for the first phase of the exercise comprising identifying vaccination sites and registration of healthcare and other frontline workers

The Central government on Saturday said India will launch its COVID-19 vaccination drive from January 16, with priority to be given to nearly three crore health care and frontline workers

With India about to roll out its vaccination programme, the accruals of the economic benefits would be significant, especially to sectors hit hard during the pandemic, said ASSOCHAM Secretary General Deepak Sood

Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain informed that there will be one COVID-19 vaccination centre each of the 89 hospitals; 40 government hospitals and 49 private ones have been selected for COVID-19 vaccination drive in Delhi

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Bharat Biotech revealed that one of the participants for Phase III trials passed away on December 21, 2020, and the death was reported to the People's College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre by the son of the deceased

First phase of COVID-19 vaccination will cover 30 crore people from priority groups, including 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers, along with 27 crore people above 50 years of age and those with co-morbiditiesa

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Coronavirus pandemic: Without the uniform implementation of effective face masking and strict social distancing, epidemics could quickly worsen as these variants spread and become predominant, said the task force