A day before the auspicious occasion of Makar Sankranti, on Wednesday, Mumbai received about 1,39,500 doses of the vaccine ahead of the mass vaccination drive to be held at 72 centres.
In a tweet, the PM shared the news of the Bharat Biotech made Covaxin and SII’s Covishield receiving a green signal from the DCGI for its vaccine rollout
The SII CEO said that an emergency approval is awaited from the DGCI for the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine, post which India can start its COVID immunisation program by January 2021 and hope to come back to normalcy by October next year