<span style="color: #222222;">Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandviya today released Harvard study reports on India's COVID-19 vaccination programme. These reports are, COVID-19-India's Vaccine Development Story and India's COVID-19 Vaccination Administration Journey. These reports highlight the crucial aspects that have contributed to the success of country's COVID-19 vaccines' development and administration efforts. The reports focus on manufacturing indigenous vaccines and timely procedures that ensured safe administration of vaccination across the various age groups. The reports have compiled significant crucial information and experiences that can serve as learning experiences for future pandemic management and public health issues. <br />''&nbsp;</span><br />''On this occasion, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya said, these reports will help the citizens and the world to understand country's vaccination journey and the fight against the Covid pandemic. He said, the reflection of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong leadership and visionary vision is clearly visible in this study. <br />''<br />''He said, country's scientific capacity demonstrated by the development of many indigenous vaccines, consistent efforts to trace, test, treat and contain the infection spread through a strong surveillance network have made the vaccination drive successful. He said, solidarity displayed by health care professionals, frontline workers, and citizens with active support of states and ministries, played a crucial role in this mega drive.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''The reports acknowledge the challenges faced by the government in delivery and administration of vaccines to a vast size of the population. The reports also focus on government's efforts to ensure free and equitable distribution of vaccines while addressing vaccine hesitancy that was prevalent in certain pockets of the country. The reports also identify efforts towards training and skilling of health care professionals and digital drive for vaccination with the help of CoWin digital platform.<br />''&nbsp;<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Highlighting the crucial role played by technology during the pandemic, Dr. Mark Esposito of Harvard University said, despite having such diversity, India, not only addressed the national crisis but also generated a blueprint for the world to innovatively use technology to deal with the future public health crisis.</span>
News On AIR | February 23, 2022 8:00 PM
Health Minister Mansukh Mandviya releases Harvard study reports on India's COVID-19 vaccination programme; Says, it will help to understand country's vaccination journey