The registration for the second phase of COVID vaccination has also been completed in the state.
Biden was injected the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Monday at a hospital in Newark, Delaware, his home state.
Meanwhile training for the vaccination drive has been almost done in all states and doctors, nurses and pharmacists are ready to vaccinate the beneficiaries.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan personally reviewed the dry run of vaccination at Government General Hospital in the Chennai on Friday.
Moderna has received authorisation for its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States and Canada and additional authorisations are under review in the European Union, Singapore, Switzerland and Britain.
When asked if people would face side effects after taking the vaccine, the DCGI said, Yes, minor side effects will be there, including a little like pain in the shoulders, a slight fever, little...
His statement came minutes after the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) announced the approval for Covishield developed by AstraZenca and Oxford. Poonawalla added the vaccine is safe, effective...
The Drugs Controller General of India will brief the media at 11 am today at the National Media Centre regarding the coronavirus vaccine.
Here is what we know about the race to deliver vaccines to help end the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide
According to Jeremy Farrar, director of the London-based research charity Wellcome Trust UK, there is no indication at the moment that the new strain would evade treatments and vaccines.