India may get first shots of Covid-19 vaccine on Jan 13

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan told a press briefing that healthcare staff and frontline workers do not need to enrol themselves as their database has been filled on a bulk basis in the Co-WIN vaccine distribution management system.Based on dry-run feedback, the Ministry of Health is ready to launch the Covid-19 vaccinewithin 10 days of the date of authorization for emergency use, he said. However, whileresponding to a rollout query, Bhushan said the government would take the final decision. The country’s drugs regulator on Sunday granted restricted emergency use approval to Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield and also to indigenously developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech.