{"id":106755,"date":"2020-11-21T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=106755"},"modified":"2020-11-21T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T07:19:47","slug":"pm-modi-meeting-covid19-vaccinataion-strategy-coronavirus-vaccine-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/pm-modi-meeting-covid19-vaccinataion-strategy-coronavirus-vaccine-india\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi discusses Covid-19 vaccination strategy with top officials in virtual meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PM Narendra Modi on Friday held a virtual meeting with &nbsp;top officials to discuss India\u2019s vaccination strategy for Covid-19 and the way forward. During the meeting, issues related to progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement were discussed, the prime minister informed on micro-blogging platform Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Held a meeting to review India\u2019s vaccination strategy and the way forward. Important issues related to progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement were discussed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nwZuoMFA0N\">pic.twitter.com\/nwZuoMFA0N<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1329814674376802305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Several vaccines are in different stages of trial to prevent Covid-19 which has caused millions of deaths across the globe since its outbreak in Wuhan\u2019s China last year. &nbsp;Some of these vaccine have reported over 90% effectiveness. According to the government, in India five vaccines are in advanced stages of development. Many countries including Bangladesh, Qatar, Myanmar, South Korea, Bahrin, Switzerland, Bhutan and Austria have expressed interest&nbsp; in partnering for vaccine development, the statement added. According to the statement, preparations are underway for administering the vaccine at the first available opportunity. These include preparing a database of &nbsp;healthcare and frontline workers, &nbsp;augmentation of cold chains and procurement of syringes, needles, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reviewed various issues like prioritisation of population groups, reaching out to HCWs, cold-chain Infrastructure augmentation, adding vaccinators and tech platform for vaccine roll-out.<\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1329814734258855937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the third phase of human trials of India\u2019s homemade vaccine covaxin have started in Odisha. Covaxin was administered to two recruits at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital. Oxford-Covid19 vaccine is another front runner in the race. Serum Institute of India&#8217;s CEO Adar Poonawalla\u00a0has said that the vaccine would be available for healthcare workers and elderly people around February next year and by apriil for the general public. He said every Indian would hopefully be vaccinated by 2024. He said vaccine\u2019s two doses will cost around Rs 1000. He added that the vaccine had so far produced great results and seemed to be working even on elderly people, which was a concern earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sonia-gandhi-forms-3-panels-as-illness-forces-her-to-move-out-of-delhi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sonia Gandhi forms 3 panels as illness forces her to move out of Delhi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s covid-19 tally touched the 90-lakh mark with 45,882 new infection in past 24 hours. Currently there are &nbsp;4,43,794 active cases in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the meeting, issues related to progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement were discussed, the prime minister informed on micro-blogging platform Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":101180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[88191,98695,98699,92435,97576,1399,165,98696],"yst_prominent_words":[6604,90276,4509,18055,13433,5313,8513,4560,4051,36930,38393,8213,48599,92747,64317,6125],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2020\/10\/27134021\/OM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106755"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=106755"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=106755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->