Live Updates from Ashish Jha, Randeep Guleria's speech:Ashish Jha: On rapid breakthrough on Covid-19 vaccine, Dr Ashish K Jha said, "It is indeed happy news".Guleria: "The announcements by the two pharma companies are encouraging.
There are many hurdles. The first one is crossed," Guleria said."You will have many vaccines to choose from, it's a very interesting time," Guleria added. Guleria: "By first quarter of next year, we should have vaccines available in India."Guleria: "The Indian government is in talks with Pfizer, not so much with Moderna.
We have two challenged in front of us now. One, to break the transmission chain, two, to make the vaccine available to all."Ashish Jha: 70,00 people have gotten vaccinated between two vaccines.