The experts set up an international initiative called COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative), designed to make sure that every country in the world gets access to vaccines regardless of its ability to pay. Almost a year-and-a-half into the pandemic, here’s a look at the current status of the highly ambitious global vaccination programme.
The stage is all set! We are just hours away from the world’s biggest Covid vaccine rollout. As many as 3 lakh frontline healthcare workers will be inoculated at 2,934 sites across India on day one of the massive nationwide Covid-19 inoculation drive, which is set to begin on Saturday, 16 January.
After months of fretting over whether a COVID-19 vaccine would even be possible, we now have almost five promising vaccine candidates. Moreover, the nation has initiated action plans to take the vaccine from warehouses to the upper shoulders of millions of people in the country whenever it becomes available. Yes! there’s still a long way to go, but how far are we from a vaccine for the novel coronavirus now? Let’s look into it