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Covid-19 vaccine. (Representative image)
Everyone above the age of 18 will be eligible to get the Covid-19 vaccination from 1 May. A decision to this tune was taken during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (19 April).
India’s National Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy has been built on a systematic and strategic end-to-end approach, proactively building capacity across R&D, Manufacturing and Administration since April 2020.
India has been following a dynamic mapping model based on availability of vaccines and coverage of vulnerable priority groups to take decisions of when to open up vaccinations to other age-groups. A good amount of coverage of vulnerable groups is expected by 30 April.
Phase-I of the National Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy was launched on 16 January for Health Care Workers and Front Line Workers. As systems and processes stabilised, Phase-II was initiated from 1 March, focusing on all people above 45 years of age, accounting for more than 80 per cent Covid mortality in the country.
In its Phase-III, the National Vaccine Strategy aims at liberalised vaccine pricing and scaling up of vaccine coverage. This would augment vaccine production as well as availability, incentivising vaccine manufacturers to rapidly ramp up their production as well as attract new vaccine manufacturers, domestic and international.
It would also make pricing, procurement, eligibility and administration of vaccines open and flexible, allowing all stakeholders the flexibility to customise to local needs and dynamics.
The main elements of the Liberalised and Accelerated Phase 3 Strategy of the National Covid-19 Vaccination program that would come in effect from 1 May, are as follows:
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