{"id":26293,"date":"2021-01-03T22:47:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/03\/indias-approval-of-twin-vaccines-triggers-mass-immunisation-drive"},"modified":"2021-01-03T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T13:47:14","slug":"indias-approval-of-covid-vaccines-triggers-mass-immunisation-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26293","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s approval of covid vaccines triggers mass immunisation drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Green light for Oxford vaccine alongside domestic Covaxin hailed as \u2018decisive turning point\u2019 by PM<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India has granted emergency approval to both the Oxford\/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and the domestically developed Covaxin, signalling the start one of the largest Covid-19 immunisation drives in the world.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on Sunday, the drugs controller general of India said the decision to approve both the Oxford vaccine and Covaxin, which is produced by the Indian company Bharat Biotech and was part-funded by the government, had come after \u201ccareful examination\u201d of the data.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/03\/indias-approval-of-twin-vaccines-triggers-mass-immunisation-drive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green light for Oxford vaccine alongside domestic Covaxin hailed as \u2018decisive turning point\u2019 by PMCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has granted emergency approval to both the Oxford\/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,346,62,914,433,299,79,61,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-narendra-modi","category-science","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26295,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions\/26295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}