India wants to deliver 600 million coronavirus shots in the next six to eight months starting in January. The country's drug regulator is also considering similar approvals for the Pfizer /BioNTech vaccine and another developed by India's Bharat Biotech. State health officials had set up 19 vaccination centres, each with 25 dummy beneficiaries played by health workers, who would help test out the entire inoculation sequence, including online monitoring systems, Shivahare said. "The cold chain infrastructure for distribution of the vaccine is also being tested as a part of the dry run," he said. India has the second-highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world after the United States, and it has recorded 147,901 deaths so far.

Source: bd News24 December 28, 2020 12:02 UTC