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The vaccination paradigm
In India, covid-19 vaccine was launched on January 16, 2021.More than 100 million doses of vaccines were approved i.e., COVISHIELD AND COVAXIN. Both the vaccines were approved by
Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO).
COVISHIELD has been manufactured by THE SERUM INSTITUTE OF INDIA while COVAXIN has been manufactured by THE BHARAT BIOTECH in association with the INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH and THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY.
0.5ml in the upper arm region is the dosage of both the vaccines. After having first dose of Covishield one have to wait for 12-16 weeks i.e. 84 days to get the second dose while for Covaxin you only has to wait for 4-6 weeks. The efficiency of Covishield is 90% whilst for Covaxin it’s 81%.
After the launch, the first group involved healthcare and frontline workers. The vaccination program began on JANUARY 16,2021 operating 3,006 vaccination centres on the onset. On first day, 1,65,714 people were vaccinated. Within the first 3 days, 6,31,417 people were vaccinated. Out of these 0.18% were reported with side effects and only 9 people (0.002%) were admitted to hospitals for observation and treatment.

By March 1, out of 30 million, which was the original goal, only 14 million healthcare and frontline workers were vaccinated. The second group was of people between the age of 45 and 60 years and any left out healthcare and frontline workers. Online registration via AROGYA SETU APP and CO-WIN website began on March 1 and from April 1 eligibility was extended to all residents over the age of 45 years. On April 8, with the beginning of 2nd wave, PM Modi called for a four day TEEKA UTSAV from 11th to 14th April. By the end of the utsav, India reached a total of over 111 million vaccine doses to date.
There is still a shortage of vaccines around the country but the outcome has been 11% of Indian population is partially inoculated whereas, 3% of Indian population has been jabbed with both doses.
India has also donated over 5.5 million vaccines to neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. There are also reports of adverse events, a total of 617 serious events were reported until March 29, of these, 180 cases resulted in death. In more than half of the examined cases of death, the cause of death was found to be acute coronary syndrome.
Vaccination program was going in the whole, yet the second wave hit us hard. There has been speculation of the upcoming third wave. Whilst we disagree about the timeline of the upcoming third wave there remains no question as to requirement of the drastic change in the People’s behaviour.

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