All-India vaccine rollout set for next week: Govt

The government will roll out the Covid-19 vaccine next week, with health secretary Rajesh Bhushan saying this was set to happen within 10 days of emergency use authorisation being granted. The Indian regulator granted the EUA on January 3. The drug regulator announced grant of restricted emergency use authorisation to two companies — Pune-based Serum Institute of India for Covishield, the vaccine developed by Oxford University and Astra Zeneca, and Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech that has developed Covaxin in collaboration with ICMR.