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Three leading coronavirus vaccine developers -- Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc and Bharat Biotech -- have applied for emergency use authorisation in India.

The United States continues to be the most affected country by the virus with its total cases nearing 15 million.

Challenges in cold chain management of the vaccine, which involves maintaining the vaccine at a constant temperature, has been addressed, says Minister

"SII has applied for emergency use authorisation to DCGI. The application will be reviewed by the expert committee and after that final call will be taken," a senior government official confirmed ANI.

Britain on Wednesday gave emergency approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, with health officials set to use criteria based on age and vulnerability to decide the order of people to receive it.

Delhi airport authorities said that besides the cool chamber, it also has "cool dollies" at the airside that ensure an unbroken cool chain during temperature-sensitive cargo movement between terminal and aircraft.

The 67-year-old minister was given the first shot on November 20.

The 67-year-old is a senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a legislator from Ambala Cantt assembly constituency.

Poonawalla joined the Serum Institute of India in 2001 and became the CEO of Serum Institute with complete control of the day-to-day operations of the company in 2011.

Biden, who is due to take office on January 20, said he will make sure that the vaccine is both free and available.

This will be the second all-party meeting called by the government to discuss the COVID-19 situation since the outbreak of the coronavirus.

Moderna also confirmed that it expects to have 20 million vaccine doses available in the US by the end of 2020.

Overall level of positive sentiment climbed to the highest since February amid predictions that market conditions would normalise once a Covid vaccine is rolled out

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the move heralded a vaccination programme "that will ultimately allow us to reclaim our lives and get the economy moving again".

Priority groups will include care home residents, health and care staff, the elderly and the clinically extremely vulnerable.

The Associations' president Shashi Kumar said, "Teachers are doing their best for online classes but we are unable to pay them a minimum salary."

The move comes a day after rival Moderna said it was asking US and European regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Takes stock of the progress made by the Hyderabad-based company in the trials of Covaxin, jointly developed with ICMR-National Institute of Virology

He was received by Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, DGP M Mahender Reddy and three other officials on behalf of the State government.

He will be proceeding to Bharat Biotech's facility located at Genome valley, a life sciences cluster about 20 km from the Air Force base, officials said.