COVID–
19 vaccine being available soon increasing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the
mobile
technology will
be
used
for mass inoculation against the pandemic.
Speaking at the India
Mobile Congress, he said
mobile
technology has enabled benefits worth billions of dollars
to reach the deserving and also helped the poor and vulnerable during the pandemic.
“It is also with the help of
mobile
technology that we will embark on one of the world’s largest
COVID–
19
vaccination
drive,” he said.
He did not provide details.
Three leading coronavirus vaccine developers — Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc and Bharat Biotech — have applied
for emergency use authorization in India.
While Pfizer India has applied
to drug regulator
for permission
to import its experimental mRNA vaccine
for sale and distribution without the requirement
for local clinical trials, Serum Institute of India Ltd, AstraZeneca’s India vaccine partner, has…