Vaccines can start selling in open market once companies receive complete authorisation: NITI Aayog

It has been less than 3 days to go for the COVID vaccination drive. As many as 3 crore healthcare and frontline workers will be inoculated in the first phase of the vaccination drive, which starts on Saturday (January 16).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the pan-India programme at 11 am on Saturday, along with CoWIN, the official mobile app for vaccine registration.

Consignments of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and Serum Institute's Covishield have started arriving in various parts of the country.

To discuss about the road ahead for the vaccination program, Shereen Bhan spoke to Pankaj Mehta, MD - India & South Asia at Carrier Transicold; Dr Madan Gopal, Sr Consultant- Health at NITI Aayog and T Koshy, Partner- Government & Public Sector at EY India.