Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that healthcare workers and people aged above 65 years will be given Covid-19 vaccine on priority. Addressing the FICCI FLO's National Webinar on 'The Shifting Healthcare Paradigm During and Post-COVID', Vardhan said, COVID-19 vaccine will be available in a couple of months and it is estimated that by July-August, 400-500 million vaccine doses will be made available for 25-30 crore people.

"I am confident that the COVID-19 vaccine will be ready in the next three-four months," he said. "It is natural that the vaccine distribution would have to be prioritized. As you know the healthcare workers who are corona warriors will be prioritized, then people who are above 65 years of age, they have been prioritized and then those from 50-65 years of age have been prioritized.  We have made a very detailed meticulous plan on this. What we would have to do in March-April next year, we have started planning for it from now only ", he said.

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories will also soon start the combined phase 2 and 3 clinical trials of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, in India. Also,  Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have said their vaccine candidate was found to be more than 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19. Moderna had also claimed its vaccine will be the efficacy of 94.5 percent.

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