ZyCoV-D to be launched in seven states first, says health ministry

Training of vaccinators complete on needle free injector system

The ZyCoV-D Covid vaccine by Zydus Cadila will be launched first in seven states including Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, the health ministry said.

All the seven states have been asked to identify districts where there is a high population of unvaccinated eligible people - who have not received even a single dose yet, for introduction of the new vaccine.

Cadila Healthcare (Zydus Cadila) had said in the first week of November that it had received an order to supply 10 million doses of ZyCoV-D, the world’s first Plasmid DNA vaccine, to the Centre.