New Delhi: With the chances increasing of a COVID-19 vaccine being available soon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the mobile technology will be used for mass inoculation against the pandemic.
Speaking at the India Mobile Congress, he said mobile technology has enabled benefits worth billions of dollars to reach the deserving and also helped the poor and vulnerable during the pandemic.
"It is also with the help of mobile technology that we will embark on one of the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination drive," he said.
He did not provide details.
Three leading coronavirus vaccine developers -- Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca Plc and Bharat Biotech -- have applied for emergency use authorization in India.
While Pfizer India has applied to drug regulator for permission to import its experimental mRNA vaccine for sale and distribution without the requirement for local clinical trials, Serum Institute of India Ltd, AstraZeneca's India vaccine partner, has applied for emergency use authorisation using data from Phase-III trials that were conducted locally, as well as in Brazil and the UK.
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