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India approves AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

Current GK (Hr Patwari) Health and Diseases

India has approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, paving the way for a huge immunisation campaign in the world's second most populous country.
It is the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for emergency use by India, which has the highest number of infections after the United States.
The country hopes to inoculate 300 million of its 1.35 billion people in the first six to eight months of 2021.