On the 1st, India approved the emergency use of a novel coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by British AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
AstraZeneca is the first to be approved for use of the corona vaccine in India.
Accordingly, India plans to begin vaccinating as early as next week.
The number of priority vaccination targets set by the Indian government is known to be around 300 million people, including medical staff, police officers, soldiers, and over 50.
India, the world’s second largest population after China, has a total population of 1.3 billion.
Currently, the cumulative number of coronavirus cases in India is 10.3 million, the second largest in the world after the United States (2135,000).
As of the morning of the 2nd, the cumulative number of deaths in India was 149,000, 200, the third largest death toll after the United States (348,000) and Brazil (195,000,400).
VOA news
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