Expert committee on COVID-19 vaccine administration to meet on Wednesday

An expert committee under chairmanship of NITI Aayog member Dr VK Paul will meet on Wednesday to consider logistics and ethical aspects of procuring and ministering COVID-19 vaccine, Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

committee on vaccine ministration will eng with all stakeholders including state governments and vaccine manufacturers, ministry said in a tweet.

committee would chalk out strategies on aspects of prioritisation of vaccine ministration once it is developed, rollout and cold chain logistics and training of people who would be ministering it.

" Expert Committee on Vaccine ministration under chairmanship of Dr V K Paul, NITI Aayog will meet on 12th August to consider logistics & ethical aspects of procurement & ministration of COVID-19 vaccine," ministry tweeted.

phase-1 human clinical trials of two COVID-19 vaccine candidates, developed indigeusly by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research and Zydus Cila Ltd, have been completed and trials have moved to phase 2, ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said last Tuesday.

Serum Institute of India, Pune has also been permitted for conducting Phase 2 and 3 human clinical trials of Oxford University-developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate in country.

India's COVID-19 caselo has climbed to 22,68,675 while death-toll mounted to 45,257, according to Health ministry data updated at 8 am on Tuesday.

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