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Some vaccines may get licensed in the next few weeks: Health secretary

Depending upon availability all three priority groups selected for vaccination could get vaccinated simultaneously

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More than half of the present number of auxiliary nurses and midwives will be deployed by the government for covid vaccinations, the health ministry said.

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
One or more vaccines that will undergo review for emergency use authorisation (EUA) may get licensed in the next few weeks, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on Tuesday. Depending upon the availability, all three priority groups selected for vaccination could get vaccinated simultaneously, he added.

He also said that states will start receiving additional supply of cold chain equipment, including walk-in coolers, deep freezers and reefer trucks, starting December 10.

Current cold chain infrastructure is capable of storing additional quantities of Covid-19 vaccine required for the first 30 million people, which includes the total number of healthcare and frontline workers identified