India has activated its portion of vaccine doses in the COVAX alliance to make more doses available as the country includes children and populations eligible for precautionary extra doses, even as cases of Omicron continue to increase.
India could get about $ 20 million from its stake in COVAX. “This portion will graduated from the COVAX alliance. India has been providing free doses of vaccine to lower-middle-income countries since the beginning of the pandemic, “said a senior health ministry official. These would be doses of the Covisheild vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII).
In addition, there are 17.90 crore cans with states and UTs. In addition, orders were placed for cans of 20 crore at SII and Bharat Biotech, which are in the pipeline. These should be available by February 2022.
Now the total dose projection is approximately 58 crore.
CYDUS GIVE 1 CRORE IN THE FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY
Zydus Cadila’s ZY-COV-D vaccination starts in the first week of January. Zydus Cadila is from the 4th to 5th January ready to dispense doses of 1 crore. These are initially used for adults – in certain states – such as – The seven states where ZyCoV-D is given in the first phase are Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.
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BIOLOGICAL E AT RISK STORAGE CANS – 10 CRORE WILL BE AVAILABLE IN JAN AFTER EXPECTED SEC APPROVAL
Biological E – The vaccine maker submitted data from its Phase 3 studies to the Indian Medicines Agency last Friday. A meeting on EEA for Biological E is expected next week. Upon approval, Biological E has carried out a high risk stockpiling of 10 crore doses of vaccine, pre-orders and payments for 30 crore doses of Biological E already given by GOI.
No further orders have been placed for Sputnik-V vaccines, health ministry sources said.
These projections not only take into account the precautionary doses, but also the population who have still not taken the second dose of the vaccine.
INDIA’S POPULATION PROJECTIONS TO BE GIVEN PRECAUTIONARY DOSE
Currently, the total number of health care workers and frontline workers eligible for a preventive dose can be estimated at 2.6 billion, as not all 3 billion have been fully vaccinated, according to government figures.
According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Health, more than 1.03 million healthcare workers were vaccinated with the first dose while 96 lakh received their second vaccination.
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The total number of frontline workers is estimated at 2 billion; 1.83 crore frontline workers received their first dose and 1.68 crore received their second dose.
Approximately 6 crore people over 60 years of age with comorbidities are eligible for a precautionary dose. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, nine million people over the age of 60 are now fully vaccinated. While the first dose was taken by approximately more than 12 million people.
CHILD VACCINATIONS IN INDIA
It has been projected that approximately 7.5 million teenagers fall into the category of those between the ages of 15 and 18. This category is now open for the first dose of vaccine from January 3rd. In India, only Zydus and Covaxin are currently available for children.
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