A great rehearsal before a large-scale campaign.
India conducted, on Saturday January 2, simulations of vaccinations across the whole country before launching - as early as next week if the situation permits - a massive vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in this country of 1, 3 billion inhabitants.
A government commission on Friday recommended using the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca and the first injections could come this week after the final green light given by the Indian drug authority.
Third most bereaved country
India, the third country in the world most affected by the coronavirus after the United States and Brazil, has set an ambitious goal of vaccinating up to 300 million people by mid-2021.
According to a report established on Friday by AFP from official sources, India had 148,994 dead and 10,286,709 cases of contamination.
India's Serum Institute, the world's largest vaccine producer, has already stocked tens of thousands of doses of the Covishield vaccine developed by AstraZeneca, and some 96,000 healthcare workers have been trained to inoculate it.
The exercises on Saturday consisted precisely in health workers exercising on mannequins in centers specially set up for the upcoming vaccination campaign across the country.
The United Kingdom and Argentina were the first countries to authorize the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine.
With AFP
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