COVID Vaccines Will Be Available In Large Amounts In 2 Months: AIIMS Chief

Mumbai: AIIMS (Delhi) director Dr Randeep Guleria said on Saturday that there would be no shortage of vaccines in the coming days and vaccines would become available in large quantities in “about two months”.

Addressing issues related to coronovirus with Chairman of Medanta Dr Naresh Trehan, the AIIMS chief said that India would soon get vaccines from outside as well.

“Vaccines will be available in large amounts probably in about 2 months’ time as companies that are making vaccines will start opening up their manufacturing plants, there will be more vaccine doses available. We will get vaccines from outside too,” he said.

“Covishield, Covaxin, Sputnik will be manufactured in India by more & more manufacturing plants. Sputnik has tied up with no. of companies in India to manufacture. New plants being set up by Bharat Biotech&SII. By July-Aug we’ll have large no. of doses available,” he added.

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Dr. Guleria further stated that people with comradeship and elderly people should be vaccinated as soon as possible.

“I still believe the chance of dying due to COVID19 is much higher in those with comorbidities and elderly, we should focus on trying to vaccinate them at the earliest and also look at the larger population who can be vaccinated in a graded manner,” he added.

The AIIMS chief further said that vaccination of the entire population in one or two or one months is not possible.

“I think we should develop a strategy of giving appointments that could be two, three or four months later for younger age group and gradually work on a strategy that more and more people can be vaccinated,” Dr Guleria said.

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A total of 18,04,57,579 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered so far in the country. Meanwhile, India on Saturday recorded the lowest number of daily COVID-19 cases in 18 days as 3,26,098 tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.

Cumulative caseload touched 2,43,72,907, including 36,73,802 active cases and 2,04,32,898 total recoveries. After 3,890 deaths in the last 24 hours, the death toll from this disease has increased to 2,66,207.

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