On Monday, January 4, CM Uddhav Thackeray held a meeting in order to discuss the preparations with regards to the COVID-19 vaccination in Maharashtra.
Moreover, he discussed the situation in the state after eight persons were found positive for the new strain of coronavirus. Earlier on January 2, a dry run of the novel coronavirus vaccination process was held at three sites each in the four districts of Maharashtra namely Pune, Nagpur, Jalna and Nandurbar. This was supervised by several officers including Principal Health Secretary Dr Pradeep Vyas.
In recent developments, on January 3, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) Dr VG Somani announced that the vaccines of Serum Institue of India, Covishield, and Bharat Biotech, Covaxin, have been granted permission for restricted use in an emergency situation.
Moreover, Dr VG Somani also informed that the permission to conduct phase III trials have been granted to Cadila Healthcare vaccine against the coronavirus. This comes a day after the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) made recommendations to the Drugs Controller General of India to grant permission for restricted emergency use of the vaccines.
Meanwhile, on Monday, January 4, Maharashtra recorded 2,765 fresh cases of the coronavirus propelling the state's COVID-19 tally to 19,47,011. At present, there are 48,801 active cases in the state. With 10,362 COVID-19 patients discharged in the day, the number of recovered soared to 18,47,361. On the other hand, Mumbai continues to be a major novel coronavirus hotspot with 516 new cases recorded in the day.
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