NEW DELHI : Work is underway in full swing to set up centres for COVID-19 vaccination in the national capital with 500 such units to come up in the first phase, even as the storage facility is getting equipped with freezers to hold vaccines in a temperature range of 2-8 degrees Celsius.Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Sunday had welcomed the approval given for emergency use of two COVID-19 vaccines, and asserted that the city government was all set for the vaccination drive as soon as any vaccine arrives.A total of 1,000 vaccination centres will be set up.
And, 500-600 centres will be set up in the first phase, for which work is underway in full swing, officials said.India's drugs regulator has approved Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.