In the race of finding a safe vaccine against the deadly coronavirus, the countries across the globe are participating as it involves every individuals safety. Various countries and organizations are announcing about the invention, and the date of availability to the people. The organizations like WHO, UNICEF are setting up the physical requirements like cold chain for storage, doctors, medical equipments in th epoor countries as there is an estimate of 30 billion people around the world to go without the vaccine due to the lack of physical setup.
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A developing country with high population India is identifying 300 million people from its 130 million population for the initial dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The first priority is given to the front-line warriors such as police, health-care, and sanitation workers. In the list elderly people and those with co-morbidities are included. The vaccine shot includes a booster dose has been planned for the initial phase once the vaccine is approved for people use. The nation’s broken health-care system, is already struggling to provide adequate care owing to the prolonged pandemic outbreak. An estimated 600 million doses will be given in the first phase and implementation plan aims to cover over 23% of the population.
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In the first phase once protection against the viral disease becomes available, Union health ministry officials said the 30 million includes 7 million doctors and paramedics, 20 million other frontline health workers will be vaccinated. The health ministry has said that the country is ready with the infrastructure already in place to vaccinate the 30 million, including the cold chain, vials and syringes.
