India seeks health worker database for possible Covid-19 vaccination

India has the world's highest vaccine-making capacity and the Serum Institute of India has pledged to make up to 200 million Covid-19 doses

India is urgently preparing a database of all government and private health personnel to quickly vaccinate them against the novel coronavirus once it is safe to do so, health authorities said on Friday.
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to provide any successful vaccine to each of India's 1.3 billion people, but frontline health workers would be the first to get the shots. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is aiming to vaccinate 200 million to 250 million people by July.
 
“Vaccine would be supplied by the government of India to all states for free," Pradipta Mohapatra,