COVID-19 vaccine will be ready in 3-4 months: Health Minister

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said he was confident that the COVID19 vaccine would be ready in the next threefour months and added that the priority to provide the same to 135 crore Indians would be based on scientific evaluationThe Minister was addressing the FICCI FLO webinar on The Shifting Healthcare Paradigm During and PostCovid on ThursdayI am confident that the COVID19 vaccine will be ready in the next threefour months Priority for the vaccine will be designed on the basis of scientific data Health care workers and corona warriors will naturally be prioritised followed by elderly and diseaseprone people Very detailed planning is underway for vaccine dissemination An evaccine intelligence platform has been created to discuss the blueprint for the same Tracking and tracing of the vaccine would be neckdeep once its available for the public Hopefully 2021 should be a better year for all of us the Health Minister saidPraising the efforts of the Central government the Minister said some very bold steps were taken to fight the pandemic in the last few monthsJanta curfew was a very innovative and unique experiment by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi It had nationwide participation from the citizens The decision to impose a lockdown followed by unlocking were some bold decisions by the central government during the pandemic We have handled it very well the Minister saidThe government has been very proactive in its response towards this fight Airports seaports and land borders were put under surveillance for COVID19 well in time he addedGiving an account of the journey of the last 11 months the Minister said India was amongst the top countries to control the impact of the pathogen in a short durationInitially we faced a shortage of PPE kits ventilators and N95 masks But in a few months time we were able to export these things to different parts of the world Our scientists are now well ahead of many others globally in their research on the vaccine In a couple of months we should be able to produce a vaccine for the COVID19 infection Our performance has been excellent on every parameter set by the World Health Organisation we have the highest recovery rate and the least fatality rate We have 2115 laboratories in every look and corner of the country for COVID tests Over 20 lakh dedicated COVID beds are in place It proves that whenever India decides to excel at something it does the Health Minister assertedWe will deliver a new India in 2022 as per the dream of PM Narendra Modi Only humanism and nationalism would prevail in this new India as our PM envisions Harsh Vardhan concludedKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever