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Cover Story War Against Corona

Strong web of cold chain and proper infrastructure

STEP 1 STEP 3

Vaccine producers: 2 All States have at least
Serum Institute of India one regional vaccine
with Covishield and store. There are 60 big
Bharat Biotech with storages in the country for
Covaxin second tire

Big States Ready Store
n Uttar Pradesh 9 n Jammu-Kashmir 2
n Madhya Pradesh 4 n Karnataka 2
n Gujarat 4 n Rajasthan 2

STEP 4
STEP 2 Cold Chain centres: There are

Big storages- 4 about 29,000 cold chain

n
n Karnal Kolkata centres from where the vaccines
Chennai Mumbai will be sent to the vaccination
n n
centres

These vaccines have been developed keeping in view India’s conditions and
circumstances. The experience of vaccination in India and the systems that
are in place to reach the far-flung areas is going to be very useful in the Corona
vaccination programme. We reiterate our gratitude to doctors, medical staff,
scientists, police personnel, sanitation workers and all Corona warriors for
the outstanding work done, that too in adverse circumstances. We will remain
eternally grateful to them for saving many lives.
– Prime Minister Narendra Modi

recognised india‘s knowledge and scientific countries, respectively. The reason for this trust
skills. If you look at the figures of Edelman in India is the capability of its scientists.
PR’s Trust Barometer Survey carried out in 28
countries, more than 80 per cent of Indians have SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BECOME BASIS
confidence in the indigenous vaccines, which is The world comes to a halt without science
the highest in the world. Whereas, only 66 per and innovation. The same thought process
cent people in Britain, 62 per cent in Germany, of the country’s top leadership became the
59 per cent in the US and 40 per cent people basis in the fight against Corona. Be it building
in Russia trust the vaccines developed in their infrastructure to fight Corona from scratch, or to

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