Government is continuously working with Moderna to bring it to India.

Responding to a query at a press conference on current Covid situation in India, NITI Aayog member (Health) Dr V K Paul said, “Moderna vaccine is under emergency use authorisation. The government is working actively with the manufacturers to see how to make this vaccine available in the country, importing it into the country, those efforts are on the process that has to be gone through is being actively pursued.”

Thursday’s count of cases was slightly lower than that of Wednesday, when 45,892 cases were reported. However, the deaths due to the virus on Thursday were higher than the previous day, when 817 fatalities were counted.