The Brief Bulletin Staff51 lakh Delhi citizens to be vaccinated in the first phase says Delhi CM
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced that the state government will be vaccinating 51 lakh priority category citizens in the first phase.
Kejriwal said Delhi has about 3 lakh healthcare workers, 6 lakh frontline workers, and about 42 lakh people who are aged above 50 years or have co-morbidities.
The Delhi government has been planning the storage of the vaccines at Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital.
Three vaccine candidates — Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin,Serum Institute-Oxford’s Covishield and the Pfizer’s m-RNA vaccine — are in the fray for emergency use authorisation. Delhi will approximately need 1.2 crore does to vaccinate the people in the first phase.
